salicylic acid

English

Ball-and-stick model of salicylic acid. (Black balls represent carbon atoms, red balls represent oxygen atoms, and white balls represent hydrogen atoms. The hexagonal dotted line means that double bonds and single bonds along the benzene ring can trade places, kind of like a standing wave. The COOH projection on the top right is a carboxyl group and the the OH projection on the top is a hydroxyl group.)

Alternative forms

salicyclic acid

Etymology

From Translingual Salix (“the willow”), from whose bark it can be obtained.

Noun

salicylic acid (uncountable)

(organic chemistry) A white crystalline organic acid, 2-hydroxybenzoic acid, C₆H₄(OH)(COOH), used in the production of aspirin and other industrial chemicals.

Synonyms

spiraeic acid, spiroylic acid, spiroylous acid (obsolete)

Translations

salicylic acid

Chinese:
Mandarin: 水楊酸 (zh), 水杨酸 (zh) (shuǐyángsuān)
Czech: kyselina salicylová f
Finnish: salisyylihappo
French: acide salicylique (fr) m
Greek: σαλικυλικό οξύ n (salikylikó oxý)
Hungarian: szalicilsav (hu)
Italian: acido salicilico m

Japanese: サリチル酸 (sarichiru san)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Polish: kwas salicylowy (pl) m
Portuguese: ácido salicílico m
Romanian: acid salicilic (ro)
Russian: салициловая кислота (ru) f (salicilovaja kislota)
Spanish: ácido salicílico m
Swedish: salicylsyra (sv) c

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