Definitions for glycerol

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glycerol glyc·er·ol

Spelling: [glis-uh-rawl, -rol]

IPA: /ˈglɪs əˌrɔl, -ˌrɒl/

Glycerol is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 165 anagrams from letters in glycerol (cegllory).

Definitions for glycerol

noun

1. a colorless, odorless, syrupy, sweet liquid, C 3 H 8 O 3 , usually obtained by the saponification of natural fats and oils: used for sweetening and preserving food, in the manufacture of cosmetics, perfumes, inks, and certain glues and cements, as a solvent and automobile antifreeze, and in medicine in suppositories and skin emollients.

Origin of glycerol

First recorded in 1880-85; glycer(in) + -ol¹

Examples for glycerol

Determine the acetin value of the residue at in terms of glycerol.

From the amount of bichromate reduced calculate the percentage of glycerol.

The function of the glycerol is not understood but is probably that of lessening the rate of destruction of the yeast enzymes.

Caustic soda cannot be substituted for caustic potash in the glycerol method.

In some cases the fatty acids are combined with other bases than glycerol.

The materials vary in glycerol content with the methods of preparation; especially is this the case with tallows and greases.

Maximal survival at -79° C. was obtained at the 7-percent glycerol level.

After correcting for the blank, calculate the result to glycerol.

Of the three chief by-products of alcoholic fermentation, only glycerol remains at present referable directly to the sugar.

No glycollic acid, oxalic acid, glycol, or glycerol was produced.