oleate
Chemistry. an ester or a salt of oleic acid.
Pharmacology. a preparation, as an ointment, composed of medicated oleic acid.
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How to use oleate in a sentence
Glycerin obtained by calcareous saponification, also may contain oleate of lime.
We may thus conceive how a small quantity of stearate or oleate of potash may resist the decomposing action of the soda salts.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew UreOintment of ammoniated mercury, twenty to sixty grains to the ounce; oleate of mercury, five to ten per cent.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin | Henry Weightman StelwagonIt is doubtful if drugs have any direct influence upon gall-stones, such as sulphate of soda, olive oil or oleate of soda.
Another method of mordanting cotton is to fix the metallic salt on the fibre as a tannate instead of an oleate.
British Dictionary definitions for oleate
/ (ˈəʊlɪˌeɪt) /
any salt or ester of oleic acid, containing the ion C 17 H 33 COO – or the group C 17 H 33 COO-: common components of natural fats
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