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What does stearin mean?

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Noun
  1. Solid fat.
  2. (organic chemistry) The triglyceride of stearic acid.
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The chief distinction between animal and vegetable fats is in the proportion of olein compared with stearin and palmitin.
These are largely mixtures of the ethereal salts known respectively as olein, palmitin, and stearin.
The fatty acids are then placed in clothes and subjected to pressure in the stearin cold press.
The Delegation of Malaysia also replied that the data submitted by Malaysia were taken from palm olein and palm stearin of crude types.
Here is the production of homemade stearin candles, herb candy, and they serve homemade bakery.
The paraffin price increase was countered by substituting paraffin with stearin.

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