Stearic is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 360 anagrams from letters in stearic (aceirst).
First recorded in 1825-35; stear- + -ic
Wax candles are now seldom moulded, but if so the same processes are followed as for stearic and paraffin candles.
The pins for the Shawinigan line were boiled in stearic acid.
It now forms an important secondary product in the manufacture of stearic acid.
To make this, first melt the stearic acid as already directed.
Stearine, a constituent of tallow, is a compound of glyceryl and stearic acid.
The first on examination proved to be a mixture of palmitic and stearic acids existing uncombined in the wool oil.
Fats are glycerides; that is, combinations of oleic, palmetic, and stearic acids.
Prepared from palmitin (see next article), by saponification, as stearic acid is prepared from stearin.
They all consist of acids (stearic, palmitic, &c.) united with glycerine.
The weight, less the amount of stearic acid or beeswax added, multiplied by 20 gives the percentage of fatty acids.