Salicylic Acid Definition

sălĭ-sĭlĭk
noun
A white, crystalline compound, HOC6H4COOH, prepared from salicin or phenol and used in the manufacture of aspirin, as a food preservative and mild antiseptic, etc.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • 2-hydroxybenzoic acid

Origin of Salicylic Acid

  • From French salicyle the radical of salicylic acid from salicine salicin salicin

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

  • Salix (the willow), from whose bark it can be obtained.

    From Wiktionary

Salicylic Acid Sentence Examples

  • When fused with caustic potash it yields phenol and salicylic acid.

  • All four mono-hydroxyxanthones are known, and are prepared by heating salicylic acid with either resorcin, pyrocatechin or hydroquinone; they are yellow crystalline solids, which act as dyestuffs.

  • Potassium chlorate and hydrochloric acid oxidize phenol, salicylic acid (o-oxybenzoic acid), and gallic acid ([2.3.4] trioxybenzoic acid) to tri chlorpyroracemic acid (isotrichlorglyceric acid), CC13 C(OH)2 C02H, a substance also obtained from trichloracetonitrile, CC1 3 CO CN, by hydrolysis.

  • A similar change, in one direction only, characterizes benzoic acid and salicylic acid.

  • When boiled with calcium chloride and ammonia, salicylic acid gives a precipitate of insoluble basic calcium salicylate, C 6 H 4 ‹ 0 2 i Ca, a reaction which serves to distinguish it from the isomeric metaand para-hydroxybenzoic acids.

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