nebraskanic acid
noun · first attested 2018
It has a twin called wuhanic acid, because two laboratories shared the discovery.
A twenty four carbon hydroxylated fatty acid found in the seed oil of Chinese violet cress.
41.5000°N -100.0000°W · Q1553
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 2018
- Part of speech
- noun
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Nebraska
- In English
nebraskanic acid
A team led by Edgar Cahoon at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, working with Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, reported both fatty acids in Nature Plants in 2018 and named them for their own cities. The source plant, Orychophragmus violaceus, is grown in China as a vegetable and an ornamental. Its oil cut friction between metal surfaces far more effectively than castor oil in tests, which makes it a candidate lubricant.