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Oleic

Oleic \O"le*ic\ ([=o]*l[=e]"[i^]k or [=o]*l[=a]"[i^]k or (Physiol.Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, oil; as, oleic acid, an acid of the acrylic acid series found combined with glyceryl in the form of olein in certain animal and vegetable fats and oils, such as sperm oil, olive oil, etc. At low temperatures the acid is crystalline, but melts to an oily liquid above 14[deg] C.

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oleic

a. 1 Of or pertaining to oil, especially to vegetable oil 2 (context chemistry English) Of or pertaining to oleic acid or its derivatives

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Usage examples of "oleic".

The wool suint consists largely of the potash soaps of oleic and stearic acids.

There were at once waving fat studio major-domos running around, and the monitor screens began to show hideous greasy fried chicken, oleic, aureate.

Oleic acid a by-product of the candle industry, is extensively used under the name of cloth oil, there is also used oleine, or wool oil, obtained by the distillation of Yorkshire grease.

The wool suint consists largely of the potash soaps of oleic and stearic acids.

Consisting of a straight chain of carbon atoms, with hydrogen atoms along its length, and a carboxyl growth at one end, Oleic acid is the most widely distributed example of which lipid component?