Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A salt or an ester of stearic acid.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A salt of stearic acid. The neutral stearates of the alkalis are soaps.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry Any salt or ester of stearic acid.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) A salt of stearic acid.
Etymologies
- stear(ic) + -ate2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We switched to the Medalist medical elastomer for the diaphragm after conducting an extensive search for a compound that would weld readily to polyethylene, be free of animal-derived materials such as stearate lubricants, and provide superior mechanical properties," said Kenneth L. Bibbo, Vice President of Operations for HyNetics.”
“Scum is the calcium stearate which is insoluble does 'viscosity' mean 'viscous force' or 'coefficient of viscosity'? en Español”
“The group says consumers can look out for ingredients that are likely to contain either of the chemicals, though, including: peg-100 stearate, sodium laureth sulfate, polyethylene and ceteareth-20, quaternium-15, DMDM hydantoin, imidazolidinyl urea, diazolidinyl urea and sodium hydroxymethoylglycinate. —”
“Each pink tablet in the Demulen 1/50-28 package is a placebo containing no active ingredients, and the inactive ingredients include calcium sulfate, corn starch, FD&C Red No. 3, FD&C Yellow No. 6, magnesium stearate, and sucrose.”
“Each blue tablet in the Demulen 1/35-28 package is a placebo containing no active ingredients, and the inactive ingredients include calcium sulfate, corn starch, FD&C Blue No. 1 Lake, magnesium stearate, and sucrose.”
“PEG (polyethylene glycol for example, PEG-100 stearate) (also an emollient and surfactant)”
“Glyceryl stearate also an emollient and adds pearlescence”
“They are made of either talc (magnesium silicate) or zinc stearate with added magnesium carbonate (chalk).”
“RP - GMS = glycerol mono stearate are mono glycerides of fatty acids”
“GMS = glycerol mono stearate are mono glycerides of fatty acids”
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