a. Chem. [f. ACRYL + -IC.] Of or containing the radical acryl; as the acrylic series of compounds. Acrylic acid, C3H3O.OH, formed by the oxidation of acrolein.
1869. Roscoe, Elem. Chem., xxxvi. 389. Acrylic acid is the first term of a series of monobasic acids, [which] differ from the series of fatty acids in containing two atoms of hydrogen less.
1877. Fownes, Man. Chem., II. 304. Of the acids of the first group, called normal acrylic acids, some occur mostly as glycerides in vegetable and animal organisms.
