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Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, oil; as, oleic acid, an acid of the acrylic acid series found combined with glyceryl in the form of olein in certain animal and vegetable fats and oils, such as sperm oil, olive oil, etc. At low temperatures the acid is crystalline, but melts to an oily liquid above 14…

Pertaining to an acid produced by treating oleic with nitric acid. [R.]

Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.

Having a red color and oily appearance; -- applied to a purple semifluid substance said to be obtained from archil.

Pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil; specifically (Chem.), designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found combined as a salt of glycerin in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp, and certain nuts.

Pertaining to, or designating, a fatty acid analogous to oleic acid, obtained from castor oil as an oily substance, Cricinolic.

Of or pertaining to mustard oil; specifically, designating an acid of the oleic acid series said to occur in mistard oil.

o, or obtained from, the doegling; as, doeglic acid (Chem.), an oily substance resembling oleic acid.

Relating to oleic acid, or elaine. Elaidic acid (Chem.), a fatty acid isomeric with oleic acid, and obtained from it by the action of nitrous acid.

Derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid. [R.]

iferous Mediterranean herbs (Eruca or Brassica); as, erucic acid, a fatty acid resembling oleic acid, and found in colza oil, mustard oil, etc.

, organic or inorganic; thus the natural fats are esters of glycerin and the fatty acids, oleic, etc.

taste, existing in the natural fats and oils as the base, combined with various acids, as oleic, margaric, stearic, and palmitic. It is a triatomic alcohol, and hence is also called glycerol. See Note under Gelatin.

A salt of linoleic acid.

A resinous substance obtained as an oxidation product of linoleic acid. [Written also linoxyn.]

was formerly used specifically to designate a supposed acid obtained by the oxidation of oleic acid, tallow, wax, etc.

A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction.

in). It dissolves solid fats, especially at 30-40° C. Chemically, olein is a glyceride of oleic acid; and, as three molecules of the acid are united to one molecule of glyceryl to form the fat, it is technically known as triolein. It is also called elain.

uid, obtained by distillation of calcium oleate, and probably consisting of the ketone of oleic acid.

icinus communis, or Palma Christi); -- formerly used to designate an acid now called ricinoleic acid. [Obsoles.]