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Six example sentences with carboxylic, each labelled with its topic.
Vinegar owes its sharp smell to acetic acid, the simplest carboxylic acid most students meet in the laboratory.
Science
The tang in sourdough comes from carboxylic acids the culture produces as it ferments overnight in a cool kitchen.
Cooking
Rain washes carboxylic compounds off the leaf surface, and the stream chemistry shifts within hours of a downpour.
Environment
Aspirin is a carboxylic acid, which is why it irritates the stomach lining when swallowed without food.
Medicine
Nylon is made by linking a carboxylic acid to an amine over and over, building a chain thousands of units long.
Technology
In the late 1700s Scheele isolated citric, lactic, and tartaric acids, carboxylic compounds drawn from lemons, sour milk, and grapes.
History
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