Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colorless, odorless, tasteless solid ester of glycerol and stearic acid, C57H110O6, found in most animal and vegetable fats and used in the manufacture of soaps, candles, and adhesives and for textile sizing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A glycerol ester containing three stearic acid radicals: a white crystalline non-volatile solid with a fatty feel, which makes up a large portion of certain solid fats, like tallow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol. Chem.) See
stearin .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry The
triglyceride ofstearic acid
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a triglyceride of stearic acid
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Examples
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Oudemans it consists of 63\% triolein and 37\% tripalmin and tristearin; it is not poisonous.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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C_ {3} H_ {5} (C_ {18} H_ {35} O_ {2}) _ {3} + H_ {2} O tristearin
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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