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What does oleic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to oil, especially to vegetable oil
  2. (chemistry) Of or pertaining to oleic acid or its derivatives
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The most common monounsaturated fatty acids are those oleic acids found in most oils.
The unsaponified fat of the coccus insect, as well as oleic and margaric acids.
Peanut butter has plenty of unsaturated fatty acids, with oleic acid the most abundant.
Here, the experiments with oleic acid are presented because this lipid released DNA faster and most reproducibly relative to other lipids.
One, DOTAP, is an amphipathic cation consisting of oleic acid chains esterified to a trimethylammonium moiety.
The acids separated from it are known by the names of margaric, stearic, and oleic acids.

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