Saponification - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: saponificationSaponification
The act process or result of soap making conversion into soap specifically Chem the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies as the saponification of ethyl acetate...
Glycerin
An oily viscous liquid C3H5OH3 colorless and odorless and with a hot sweetish taste existing in the natural fats and oils as the base combined with various acids as oleic margaric stearic and palmitic It may be obtained by saponification of fats and oils It is a triatomic alcohol and hence is also called glycerol See Note under Gelatin...
Hydrolysis
A chemical process causing the splitting of a chemical bond by the addition of the elements of water Where the bond which is split is not part of a ring structure this process causes formation of two compounds from one compound plus water as in the hydrolysis of the ester bonds of fats during saponification...
Saponifier
That which saponifies any reagent used to cause saponification...
Sebacic
Of or pertaining to fat derived from or resembling fat specifically designating an acid formerly called also sebic and pyroleic acid obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils as castor oil as a white crystalline substance...
Soap
A substance which dissolves in water thus forming a lather and is used as a cleansing agent Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths usually by boiling and consists of salts of sodium potassium etc with the fatty acids oleic stearic palmitic etc See the Note below and cf Saponification By extension any compound of similar composition or properties whether used as a cleaning agent or not...
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