Crossword-Solution: MYRISTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Myristic | a. | Pertaining to, or derived from, the nutmeg (Myristica). Specifically, designating an acid found in nutmeg oil and otoba fat, and extracted as a white crystalline waxy substance. |
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| of nutmeg plant family | 1 answer |
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The old plural of Eye.
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Sentences with MYRISTIC (5)
This annual crop of pork a jocund professor once described as "a prodigious mass of heavy carburetted hydrogen gas and scrofula;" but the chemists of our day would more properly stigmatize it as a vast quantity of Luzic, Myristic, Palmitic, Margaric, and Stearic acids in combination with glycerine and fibre.
Melting point, 35-45° C., usually 40-45° C.; free acidity, calculated as myristic acid, 50-80 per cent.; ester, calculated as combined myristic acid, 4-10 per cent.
The greater part of the product consists of the inodorous myristic acid, the chief odour-bearing constituent being irone.
Etym: [Myristic + ether + alcohol.] (Chem.) Defn: A white waxy substance, found in small quantities in spermaceti as an ethereal salt of several fatty acids, and regarded as an alcohol of the methane series.
Etym: [Myristc + -one.] (Chem.) Defn: The ketone of myristic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.