(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of adipic acid

plural of adipate

(organic chemistry) Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.

(anatomy, archaic) Of or relating to adipose, the fatty tissue.

Alternative form of adipo- (before a vowel)

alternative form of E357.

(organic chemistry) A white crystalline dicarboxylic acid, C₄H₈(COOH)₂; it has many industrial applications; when condensed with hexamethylene diamine it produces nylon.