saponification number

noun Chemistry.

the number of milligrams of potassium hydroxide required to saponify one gram of a given ester, especially a glyceride.

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Also called saponification value.

Origin:
1895–1900; saponi(fy) + -fication

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any of the electronegative elements, fluorine, chlorine, iodine, bromine, and astatine, that form binary salts by direct union with metals

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