sorbic, a. Chem.
(ˈsɔːbɪk)
[f. sorb n.1 + -ic.]
Contained in, derived from, the berries of the mountain-ash, Sorbus (now Pyrus) aucuparia. Chiefly in sorbic acid.
| 1815 Donovan in Phil. Trans. i. 243 Until a better name be devised, I have called it the Sorbic Acid. 1819 J. G. Children Chem. Anal. 278 Sorbic acid exists in the sorbus aucuparia; it is a transparent, colourless, inodorous fluid. 1860 Hofmann in Q. Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XII. 43, I propose to designate this beautiful body by the name of sorbic acid, reviving thus a name once used for malic acid. 1862 Miller Elem. Chem., Org. (ed. 2) v. §4. 410 The general formula..of the sorbic group. Ibid. 411 The substance..becomes crystallized as sorbic acid. 1868 Watts Dict. Chem. V. 352 Ethylic Sorbate or Sorbic ether. |