Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Noting an acid, a colorless compound of the acetylene series, , prepared by the action of alcoholic potassium hydroxid on bromoleic acid. It crystallizes in long prisms and melts at 48° C.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearic acid, and obtained, as a white crystalline substance, from oleïc acid.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chemistry An acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearic acid and obtained from oleic acid.

Etymologies

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From stearic and oleic.

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