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acrylic
acrylic:
[19]
Acrylic
was based ultimately on
acrolein
[19], the name of a very pungent poisonous organic compound. This in turn was formed from Latin
acer
‘sharp, pungent’ (source of English
acrid
) and
olere
‘smell’.