Sorbic Acid Definition

sôrbĭk
noun
A white, crystalline solid, CH3CH:CHCH:CHCOOH, isolated from the berries of mountain ash or made synthetically: used in drying oils, and as a food preservative, fungicide, etc.
Webster's New World

Origin of Sorbic Acid

  • Latin sorbum, the rowan or serviceberry

    From Wiktionary

  • From sorb

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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