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Saponify

verb
(past & past part. saponified; pres. part. saponifying)
1.
Become converted into soap by being hydrolized into an acid and alcohol as a result of being treated with an alkali.
2.
Convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali.





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"Saponify" Quotes from Famous Books



... more expensive alkali, but its combining equivalent is greatly against it as compared with soda; that is to say, that thirty-one parts of actual or anhydrous soda will saponify as much tallow or oil as forty-seven parts of anhydrous potash. It will be evident, therefore, that the use of potash instead of soda is decidedly more advantageous to the soapboiler, and more particularly in the present age, when the demand is for cheap articles, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 - July 9, 1881 • Various


Words linked to "Saponify" :   chemical science, change, chemistry, alter, modify, saponification, soap


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