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Answer for the clue "A salt or ester of propenoic acid ", 8 letters:
acrylate

Word definitions for acrylate in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context organic chemistry English) Any salt or ester of acrylic acid.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Acrylates are the salts , esters , and conjugate bases of acrylic acid and its derivatives . They are also known as propenoates (since acrylic acid is also known as 2-propenoic acid). The acrylate ion has the molecular formula C H =CHC OO . Acrylates contain ...

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n. a salt or ester of propenoic acid [syn: propenoate ]

Usage examples of acrylate.

The taillight is made out of methyl acrylate like most of them are these days, but we were able to fracture-match pieces back to the single unit you removed from your Mercedes.