wuhanic acid
noun · first attested 2018
Two new fatty acids were named after the two cities whose labs worked them out.
An unusual long-chain dihydroxy fatty acid found in the seed oil of the Chinese violet cress, Orychophragmus violaceus.
Wuhan·People's Republic of China
30.5950°N 114.2975°E · Q11746
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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wuhanic acid
Wuhanic acid and its partner nebraskanic acid were reported in Nature Plants in 2018 by a team from Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They are built by an enzyme route not previously seen in plants, and the oil that contains them performs better in lubricant tests than castor oil, the current plant-based standard. Chemists have named compounds after places of discovery for two centuries; this is one of the newest cases.