ANACARDIC ACID


Meaning of ANACARDIC ACID in English

|anə|kärdik- noun

Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary anacardic (from New Latin Anacardium + International Scientific Vocabulary -ic ) + acid; originally formed as German anakardsäure

: a brown crystalline vesicant phenolic acid found as the principal constituent of cashew nutshell liquid, held to consist of a mixture of unsaturated derivatives of salicylic acid, and converted to cardanol by decarboxylation

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