Crossword-Solution: STEARATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stearate | n. | A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “STEARATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| An ester used in ointments | 1 answer |
| Ester from tallow. | 1 answer |
| Fat found in tallow. | 1 answer |
| Hydrogenated oil | 1 answer |
| Salt from a white acid. | 1 answer |
| Type of salt or ester | 1 answer |
| Zinc ___ (ointment ingredient) | 1 answer |
| fatty acid | 7 answers |
| Acid salt. | 9 answers |
| A FATTY ACID, ___ ACID | 10 answers |
| acid fatty | 10 answers |
| Chemical salt | 20 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with STEARATE (5)
Soap is soluble in soft water, but the sodium stearate probably unites with water to form hydrogen sodium stearate and NaOH.
This would correspond to a mixture of 18.7 parts of stearate, palmitate, and oleate of glycerine, with 81.3 parts of the same acids combined with cholesteryl.
The two atoms of water needed for the condensation of the ammonium phosphate from the stearate are obtained by separating them away from two of glycerine.
Since the fats used in soap manufacture yield oleic acid, we will have a certain amount of mercuric oleates formed together with stearate and other salts, and for purposes of inunction these salts might be efficient.
Then on a day set apart for this disagreeable process in chemical technology she boiled the fat and the lye together and got "soft soap," or as the chemist would call it, potassium stearate.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1944–2012).