Definition of Stearine

1. stearin [n -S] - See also: stearin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stearine

stear
stearage
stearages
stearate
stearated
stearates
steard
steare
steared
steares
stearic
stearic acid
stearidonic
stearidonic acid
stearin
stearine (current term)
stearines
stearing
stearins
stearolic
stearone
stearones
stearoptene
stearoptenes
stearoyl
stearoyls
stears
stearyl
steatite
steatites

Literary usage of Stearine

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)
"The once flourishing tallow candle industry has almost completely succumbed to the competition of the stearine and paraffin candle The tallow dip candle has ..."

2. Elementary Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes, Robert Bridges (1845)
"Pure stearine is most easily obtained by mixing purified mutton-fat, ... The melting-point of pure stearine, which is one of its most important physical ..."

3. A Treatise on human physiology by John Call Dalton (1859)
"The more solid fats contain a larger quantity of stearine and margarine ; the less consistent varieties, a larger proportion of ..."

4. A Treatise on human physiology by John Call Dalton (1875)
"It readily dissolves both stearine and palmi- tine, its solvent power for these substances increasing with the elevation of the temperature. ..."

5. Chemical Technology, Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to Arts and Manufactures by Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Thomas Richardson, Edmund Ronalds, Henry Watts, William Joseph Dibdin (1895)
"When the operation has teen completed, the pressure is relieved, the bags and their contents removed from the press, and the cakes of stearine withdrawn. ..."

6. A Treatise on human physiology: Designed for the Use of Students and by John Call Dalton (1871)
"The more solid fats contain a larger quantity of stearine and margarine; the less consistent varieties, a larger proportion of ..."

7. A Treatise on human physiology by John Call Dalton (1867)
"The more solid fats contain a larger quantity of stearine and margarine ; the less consistent varieties, a larger proportion of ..."

8. A Treatise on Human Physiology by John Call Dalton (1864)
"The more solid fats contain a larger quantity of stearine and margarine; the less consistent varieties, a larger proportion of ..."

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