capric acid

American

[kap-rik] / ˈkæp rɪk /

noun

a white crystalline organic acid with an unpleasant odor, C 10 H 20 O 2 , found as a glyceride in goat fat: the esters are used in perfumes and flavors.

capric acid British

/ ˈkæprɪk /

noun

another name for decanoic acid

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Etymology

Origin of capric acid

1830–40; < Latin capr-, stem of caper goat ( caper ¹ ) + -ic

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Capric, kap′rik, adj. in Capric acid, a fatty acid obtained from butter, &c., having a slightly goat-like smell.—ns.

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Cap′rin, Cap′rine, a compound of capric acid and glycerine found in butter.

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In the pure condition the fats are mostly odorless and tasteless; when they possess an odor, it arises mostly from the presence of small quantities of volatile fatty acids, as butyric acid, capric acid, &c.; which becomes free through the decomposition of their oxide of glycyl combinations.

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