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Meaning Of Terephthalic
a.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of
the aromatic series, metameric with phthalic acid, and obtained, as a
tasteless white crystalline powder, by the oxidation of oil of
turpentine; -- called also paraphthalic acid. Cf. Phthalic.