sorbitic

From sorbite +‎ -ic.

sorbitic (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or made of sorbite.

   sorbitic fracture; sorbitic steel

   • 1952 February, “Chromium and Sorbitic Steel Rails”, in Railway Magazine, page 73:

     During that period, the advantages of manganese steel, and of heat treatment by the sorbitic process, were advocated strongly on the Southern Area of that company.

• “sorbite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from French sorbitique.

sorbitic m or n (feminine singular sorbitică, masculine plural sorbitici, feminine and neuter plural sorbitice)

1. sorbitic

• sorbitic in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN