Stearin is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 387 anagrams from letters in stearin (aeinrst).
1810-20; French stéarine Greek stéar fat, grease + French -ine -ine2; see -in2
A constituent formerly supposed to exist in solid fats, but now regarded as a mixture of stearin and palmitin.
It contains about 60% of olein and 40% of palmitin and stearin.
Olein is a liquid at ordinary temperature, while stearin is solid.
The fatty acids are then placed in clothes and subjected to pressure in the stearin cold press.
This is obtained from stearin (see below), by saponification.
Prepared from palmitin (see next article), by saponification, as stearic acid is prepared from stearin.
The refined oleic acid of the stearin works also commonly passes under the name.
The crude oleic acid, or lard oil of commerce, is chiefly obtained as a secondary product in the manufacture of stearin.
The melting point of stearin appears to undergo changes and suggests the existence of distinct modifications.
stearin is a white crystalline substance, sparingly soluble in alcohol and ether, but insoluble in water.