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Definition of Cerotic acid
1. Noun. A white solid fatty acid found in waxes (such as beeswax).
Definition of Cerotic acid
1. Noun. (fatty acid) A long-chain saturated fatty acid, CH3(CH2)24COOH, found in beeswax and carnauba wax. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cerotic Acid
Literary usage of Cerotic acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1904)
"A one per cent solution of pure cerotic acid in boiling alcohol gives no precipitate
with magnesium acetate; the salt separates out only after cooling to ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"cerotic acid is likewise produced by the dry distillation of Chinese wax, ...
Pure cerotic acid crystallises on cooling from its solutions in small grains, ..."
3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1869)
"The cerotic acid was got by difference. The precipitate was then filtered off.
... The quantity of cerotic acid obtained was too small, even had it been ..."
4. A Handbook of Organic Chemistry: For the Use of Students by William Gregory (1856)
"cerotic acid, CM Has 0, H 0 = CM H« O*. Thia acid was recently discovered by
Brodie, as an ingredient of beeswax, and, what is unusual, in the free state. ..."
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