camphorsulfonic acid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
36
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any sulfonic acid derived from camphor, but especially d-camphorsulfonic acid (known as Reychler's acid) classically used to resolve stereoisomers
Etymology
From camphor + sulfonic acid.