Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being saponified, or converted into soap.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of conversion into soap.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Suitable for use in
soap production. - adjective organic chemistry, of a lipid That can be
saponified
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Examples
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This is probably due to the fact that it is 100% glycerin which is not entirely saponifiable by lye.
Archive 2007-04-01 Amber 2007
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This is probably due to the fact that it is 100% glycerin which is not entirely saponifiable by lye.
Making Soap from Bio-Diesel By Products. Anne-Marie 2007
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The exact chemical changes occurring during the alkaline boil have not yet been verified; but in a somewhat oversimplified manner, the following changes could be deduced to happen: the hemicellulose which are largely made up of mixed polysaccharides are converted to their soluble simple sugars; saponifiable gums and waxes are saponified into soluble soaps; and, unsaponifiable oils are emulsified by these soaps and the wetting agent.
Chapter 7 1992
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The oil consists almost entirely of linalol, with traces of saponifiable bodies, but appears to be free from methyl heptenone, found by Barbier and Bouveault in Mexican linaloe oil.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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This product is obtained by thickening water-glass with stearine, oleine, or any other easily saponifiable fat.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various
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They are due to the fact that paraffin wax is not saponifiable by the action of the alkalies used in the process, and is therefore not extracted.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech
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Solid paraffin, heavy petroleum or paraffin oils, and rosin oil -- which is produced by the destructive distillation of rosin -- are not saponifiable, and yield about the whole of the amount employed to the petroleum spirit or ether.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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Japan wax is almost entirely saponifiable, while beeswax and spermaceti yield about half their weights to the petroleum spirit or ether.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various
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Dam and the American investigator Almquist showed almost simultaneously that activity follows the non-saponifiable lipoid fraction.
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In the saponifiable portion, glycerol was the only alcohol present, the acids being carnaubic, 10 percent; daturinic acid, 1 to 1.5 percent; palmitic acid, 25 to 28 percent; capric acid, 0.5 percent; oleic acid,
All About Coffee 1909
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