An alternate entry for the chemical adjective relating to abietic acid and conifer resins.
See previous 'abietic' entry—same word with consistent etymology from 'abies' (fir) plus '-ic' suffix.
The repetition of 'abietic' in word lists shows how central this compound was to chemistry—it appears again and again because abietic acid is so important to rosin chemistry that multiple related terms had to be created around it.
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