Definitions for oleins

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oleins o·le·in

Spelling: [oh-lee-in]

IPA: /ˈoʊ li ɪn/

Oleins is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in oleins (eilnos).

Definitions for oleins

noun

1. Also called glyceryl trioleate, triolein. a colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C 57 H 104 O 6 , the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils.
2. the oily or lower-melting fractions of a fat as distinguished from the solid or higher-melting constituents.

Origin of oleins

1830-40; French oléine, equivalent to olé- (Latin oleum oil) + -ine -in²

Examples for oleins

The elaine is peculiar to milk, but it differs very slightly from olein, or fluid fat.

They contain a bland fixed oil, consisting chiefly of olein.

olein is a liquid and is the main constituent of liquid fats.

olein may be distilled in vacuo without decomposition taking place.

olein is a liquid at ordinary temperature, while stearin is solid.

olein, a combination of oleic acid and glycerine, as well as oleic acid itself largely forms the liquid portion of oils and fats.

olein is the fluid constituent of oils and fatty substances.

olein (Triolein) is an odourless, colourless, tasteless oil, which rapidly absorbs oxygen and becomes rancid.

This reaction also occurs with the neutral glycerides of these acids, olein being converted into elaidin, which melts at 32°C.

It contains about 60% of olein and 40% of palmitin and stearin.