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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
esterify . - adjective chemistry (of an acid) combined with an
alcohol or (of an alcohol) combined with anacid , to form anester
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Examples
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Most fatty acids get re-esterified inside the fat cells.
Video of the starvation study | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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If not where do they get esterified, adipose tissue capillaries?
Video of the starvation study | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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Are there non-esterified fatty acids floating in the blood?
Video of the starvation study | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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First, looking at the difference between serum total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, triglycerides, Insulin, and non-esterified fatty acid levels after the two diets, we find that only two–total cholesterol levels and LDL levels–are different to a statistically significant degree.
Saturated fat study sucks | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006
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Lactobacillus remains, continuing to produce lactic acid, which is eventually esterified into ethyl lactate—the source of the distinguishing aroma of lambics.
SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998
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Additional lactic acid can be added midway through primary fermentation, giving it sufficient time to become esterified.
SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998
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Lactobacillus remains, continuing to produce lactic acid, which is eventually esterified into ethyl lactate—the source of the distinguishing aroma of lambics.
SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998
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Additional lactic acid can be added midway through primary fermentation, giving it sufficient time to become esterified.
SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998
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To transform them into the substitute takes three chemical transformations: the oils are hydrolyzed and their fatty acids chemically separated from the glycerol, half the fatty acids are reduced to alcohols, and the resulting alcohols are esterified with the remaining half of the acids to form the wax ester.
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It might also be tackled from the chemical end - jojoba oil can be trans-esterified with different acids and alcohols to produce many shorter chain esters with widely different freezing points and viscosities.
9 Research Needs 1985
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