Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A colorless liquid, CH3COOCH2CH(OCOCH3)CH2OCOCH3, contained in the seed of Euonymus Eoropæus and prepared from tribromhydrin. It is the triacetate of glycerol and boils at 258° C.
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- noun organic chemistry The
triglyceride ofacetic acid ;acetin
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Examples
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After cooling, 50 c.c. of water are added, and the mixture heated until all the triacetin has dissolved.
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_ -- This consists in converting the glycerol into its ester with acetic acid, the acetic triglyceride, or triacetin being formed.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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Twenty-five c.c. of a 10 per cent. caustic soda solution, which must be accurately standardised upon normal acid, are then pipetted into the liquid, which is heated to boiling for ten minutes to saponify the triacetin, and the excess of alkali is then titrated back with normal acid.
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~ -- The heating must be done with a reflux condenser, the triacetin being somewhat volatile.
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~ The acetin method of Benedikt and Canton depends upon the conversion of glycerine into triacetin, and the saponification of the latter, and reduces the estimation of glycerine to an acidmetric method.
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They manufacture such substances as polyethylene and polyurethane and polypropylene and polybutylene terephthalate and ethylene dichloride and estrobond triacetin plasticizer, which is what becomes the filters on cigarettes.
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Wii-volution 2010
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Results showed that the triacylglycerols were present as emulsion droplets with an average diameter of 900 nanometres, while triacetin was present as microemulsion droplets with an average diameter of 10 nanometres, said the researchers.
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Fda Safety Changes Effexor Xr weight triacetin hormons have a trickier wheening than boats or transspecies (see perisurgical populations).
Wii-volution 2010
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They manufacture such substances as polyethylene and polyurethane and polypropylene and polybutylene terephthalate and ethylene dichloride and estrobond triacetin plasticizer, which is what becomes the filters on cigarettes.
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