organic acid

American  

[awr-gan-ik as-id] / ɔrˈgæn ɪk ˈæs ɪd /

noun

plural

organic acids

1. Chemistry. any acid containing a carbon-hydrogen or carbon-carbon bond.

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organic acid Scientific  

1. An acid that is an organic compound, especially a carboxylic acid.

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Example Sentences

"With an organic acid, it usually takes 10-12 hours, but this took only one."

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2023

So they did all kinds of just really organic research and ended up settling on benzoic acid as the organic acid that was the most satisfying.

From The Verge • Jun. 29, 2021

They store the CO2 that they collect at night as in an organic acid.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

Some of these microbes secrete an organic acid that allows them to dissolve the glass and consume its nutrients.

From Scientific American • Jun. 12, 2015

The natural gums, when hydrolyzed, yield large proportions of sugars, but most of them also contain a complex organic acid nucleus, by means of which they form salts with calcium, magnesium, etc.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred