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PYRACETIC ACID

Specialty Definition: PYRACETIC ACID

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Chemistry

The aqueous portion, after separation of the tar, of the liquor obtained during the destructive distillation of wood, particularly from certain species of angiospermae containing 4-6 per cent of O-acetyl groups. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PYRACETIC ACID

Language Translations for "PYRACETIC ACID"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

traesyre (pyroligneous acid, pyroligneous liquor, wood acid, wood vinegar), traedestillat renset for tjaerefraktioner (pyroligneous acid, wood acid, wood vinegar). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

houtazijnzuur (pyroligneous acid, wood acid, wood vinegar). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

puuhappo (pyroligneous acid, pyroligneous liquor, wood acid, wood vinegar), puuetikka (pyroligneous acid, pyroligneous liquor, wood acid, wood vinegar). (various references)

   

French

  

acide pyroligneux (pyroligneous acid). (various references)

   

German

  

Holzessigsäure (pyroligneous acid, wood acid, wood vinegar). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

οξύ εκ ξύλου,οξεϊκόν οξύ (pyroligneous acid, wood acid, wood vinegar). (various references)

   

Italian

  

acido pirolegnoso (pyroligneous acid, wood acid, wood vinegar). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yraceticpay aciday

   

Portuguese

  

ácido pirolenhoso (pyroligneous acid, wood acid, wood vinegar). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ácido piroleñoso (pyroligneous acid, wood acid, wood vinegar). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

träsyra (pyroligneous acid, pyroligneous liquor, wood acid, wood vinegar). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: PYRACETIC ACID

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-c-d-e-i-i-p-r-t-y"

-3 letters: paediatric.

-4 letters: acaricide, accipiter, epicardia, patricide, pediatric, practiced, predacity.

-5 letters: accredit, acridity, apractic, apyretic, capacity, capricci, carditic, caryatic, caryatid, cricetid, picrated, practice, radicate, rapacity, rapidity, raticide.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
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