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Definition of Lauric acid
1. Noun. A crystalline fatty acid occurring as glycerides in natural fats and oils (especially coconut oil and palm-kernel oil).
Definition of Lauric acid
1. Noun. (chemistry) a fatty acid, CH3(CH2)10COOH, occurring in coconut, palm and laurel oil; mostly used in making cosmetics and soaps ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Lauric acid
1. CH3(CH2)10COOH;a fatty acid occurring in spermaceti, in milk, and in laurel, coconut, and palm oils as well as waxes and marine fats. Synonym: n-dodecanoic acid. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lauric Acid
Literary usage of Lauric acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"From spermaceti or other fats containing lauric acid, provided they are free from
... The precipitates last obtained, which contain chiefly lauric acid, ..."
2. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1921)
"Kusu oil consists for the most part of the triglyceride of lauric acid. The fatty
acid occurring in the nuts of the Californian bay tree, ..."
3. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1862)
"From spermaceti or other fata containing lauric acid, provided they are free from
... The precipitates last obtained, which contain chiefly lauric acid, ..."
4. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1915)
"... and Mg salts in boiling ale., suggests the presence of lauric acid. ...
lauric acid (series ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1878)
"The first is the formula of lauric acid, but it melts at 57.6° (lauric acid ...
so it must contain some acid of a higher melting-point than lauric acid, ..."
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