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Definition of Oleic acid
1. Noun. A colorless oily liquid occurring as a glyceride; it is the major fatty acid in olive oil and canola oil; used in making soap and cosmetics and ointments and lubricating oils.
Definition of Oleic acid
1. Noun. (fatty acid) An unsaturated fatty acid, having 18 carbon atoms and one double bond, found in olive oil and very many other vegetable and animal oils and fats; it is used for making soap, cosmetics etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Oleic acid
1. Organic, monobasic acids derived from hydrocarbons by the equivalent of oxidation of a methyl group to an alcohol, aldehyde, and then acid. Fatty acids are saturated and unsaturated (fatty acids, unsaturated). (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oleic Acid
Literary usage of Oleic 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 (1921)
"Ordinary oleic acid is found in most vegetable and animal fats, ... A number of
preparations sold commercially as " pure " oleic acid are 1 Langer, Arch. d. ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1900)
"An accurately weighed, quantity of oleic acid was mixed with benzene and then
treated with an excess of sulphuric acid. After removing the impurities ..."
3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1864)
"Fatty bodies are now treated to produce stearic acid, leaving oleic acid as
residue ; in future, the same fatty bodies will be treated to obtain oleic acid, ..."
4. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik Holleman (1910)
"bond is situated at the centre of the chain, the constitution of oleic acid being
CH3.(CH2)7.CH:CH.(CH2)7.COOH. This constitution is inferred from the ..."
5. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"It may also be prepared by treating oleic acid with a mixture of alcohol and ...
Three of these compounds have been obtained by heating oleic acid with ..."
6. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1867)
"oleic acid forms two classes of salts, normal and acid. ... (1298) Action of
Peroxide of Nitrogen and of Nitric Acid on oleic acid.—oleic acid, by exposure ..."
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