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stearic acid definition

stearic acid

  1. a colorless, odorless, waxlike fatty acid, CH(CH)COOH, found in many animal and vegetable fats, and used in making candles, stearates, soaps, etc.
  2. a commercial mixture of palmitic and stearic acids

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