Definitions for benzoic

benzoic ben·zo·ic

Spelling: [ben-zoh-ik]
IPA: /bɛnˈzoʊ ɪk/

Benzoic is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in benzoic (bceinoz).

Definitions for benzoic

adjective

  1. of or derived from benzoin or benzoic acid.

Origin of benzoic

First recorded in 1785-95; benzo(in)1 + -ic

Examples for benzoic

It is perfectly soluble in alcohol and in ether, and gives out its acid (benzoic or cinnamic) to water.

Benzoin has occasionally been sold by fraudulent dealers after its benzoic acid has been removed by the wet method.

It contains from 9% to 18, or (occasionally) nearly 20%, of benzoic acid, according to the quality.

Treated with nitric acid, some hydrocyanic acid is formed, benzoic acid sublimes, and the residual matter is artificial tannin:—8.

By weighing it as benzoic acid, obtained either by precipitation, or by very careful sublimation in a glass apparatus:—2.

Divide into 350 lozenges, and finish as with benzoic acid lozenges.

benzoic acid has been found of service in allaying the irritation.

It can be hydrolyzed, by a special enzyme, into salicin and benzoic acid.

It is, therefore, a di-ester of acetic and benzoic acids with tropane.

Several of the substances popularly termed balsams contain no benzoic acid, and are consequently now classed with the turpentines.

Word Value for benzoic
Scrable

20

Words with friends

23

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