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Scaling and peeling due to lack of binder and use of saponifiable oil resulted during the first six months’ exposure.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Gardner, Henry A.

Solid paraffin, heavy petroleum or paraffin oils, and rosin oil—which is produced by the destructive distillation of rosin—are not saponifiable, and yield about the whole of the amount employed to the petroleum spirit or ether.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various

Japan wax is almost entirely saponifiable, while beeswax and spermaceti yield about half their weights to the petroleum spirit or ether.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various

This product is obtained by thickening water-glass with stearine, oleine, or any other easily saponifiable fat.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 by Various

The oil consists almost entirely of linalol, with traces of saponifiable bodies, but appears to be free from methyl heptenone, found by Barbier and Bouveault in Mexican linaloe oil.

From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by Simmons, W. H.