Ethanoic Acid

And yet, humanity has not come up with anything better than isolating a useful component from organic compounds and seeing what to do with it next. This is how the term, which was given by the Italians more than 20 centuries ago, and which today is recognized as equivalent to the word “vinegar,” became known. But they didn't just use the English word ethane because it sounded good in Latin. In another way, ethyl hydrocarbon was simply called anthrone, then acetone. Surely the name “anthrone” was a very menacing sight for the Romans, but the fact remains that acid is just acid. Unfortunately, the Latin world gave only the name itself to the world, only because of the complexity of the chemical transformations of the ethyl ester of acetic acid - ethanoic acid (CH3COOCH2CH