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fatty oil

noun

, Chemistry.


fatty oil

noun

  1. another name for fixed oil


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fatty oil1

First recorded in 1825–35

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Example Sentences

Sometimes fatty oil or watery sap is found in swollen hyphal ends, or such tubes contain coloured sap.

(1⁄32 grain) mercuric iodid (biniodid of mercury) dissolved in a fatty oil.

The saponification number and acid number are both very low, but a fatty oil is present.

A small quantity of semisolid fatty oil is obtained from the seeds by pressure.

As it is usually itself adulterated with some fatty oil, it needs to undergo purification before use.

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