Phthalic is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 221 anagrams from letters in phthalic (achhilpt).
First recorded in 1855-60; (na)phthal(ene) + -ic
Dilute nitric acid oxidizes it to phthalic acid, and sodium reduces it in alcoholic solution to hydrindene, C9H10.
It condenses with phthalic anhydride to form rhodamine, and with succinic anhydride to rhodamine S.
The phthaleïn formed from gallic acid and phthalic anhydride really results from the union of the latter with pyrogallol.
phthalic acid, which was discovered in 1836 by Laurent, is a product of the oxidation of many benzenoid compounds.
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