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anacardic acid

noun
an·​a·​car·​dic acid | \ ¦anə¦kärdik-\

Definition of anacardic acid

: 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

First Known Use of anacardic acid

1848, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for anacardic acid

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

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