propionic acid

propionic acid
Chem., Pharm.
a colorless, oily, water-soluble liquid, C3H6O2, having a pungent odor: used in making bread-mold-inhibiting propionates, in perfumery, and in medicine as a topical fungicide.
Also, propanoic acid. Also called methylacetic acid.
[1850-55]

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