Get Affordable VMs - excellent virtual server hosting


browse words by letter
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

stearinmore about stearin

stearin


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Stearin  \Ste"a*rin\,  n.  [Gr.  ?  tallow,  suet:  cf  F. 
  st['e]arine.]  (Physiol.  Chem.) 
  One  of  the  constituents  of  animal  fats  and  also  of  some 
  vegetable  fats,  as  the  butter  of  cacao.  It  is  especially 
  characterized  by  its  solidity,  so  that  when  present  in 
  considerable  quantity  it  materially  increases  the  hardness, 
  or  raises  the  melting  point,  of  the  fat,  as  in  mutton  tallow. 
  Chemically,  it  is  a  compound  of  glyceryl  with  three  molecules 
  of  stearic  acid,  and  hence  is  technically  called  tristearin, 
  or  glyceryl  tristearate. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  stearin 
  n  :  an  ester  of  glycerol  and  stearic  acid 




more about stearin