Meaning of elaidic acid | Babel Free

Definitions

The trans isomer of oleic acid; the major trans fat found in hydrogenated vegetable oils, also occurring in small amounts in caprine and bovine milk.

uncountable

Examples

“I prepared elaïdic ether by passing a current of muriatic acid gas into an alcoholic solution of elaïdic acid; the ether produced was agitated with water to remove⟳ the muriatic acid, and then with alcohol, to separate⟳ it from any elaïdic acid not converted into ether, and finally with water, to free it from this alcohol.”

“I have⟳ observed that to transform⟳ oleic acid or elaïdic acid into palonitic acid it suffices to choose⟳ amongst the reactions which produce⟳ elaïdic acid that which produces at the same time nascent hydrogen, whether it is obtained direct⟳ or by any other means.”

“Doubly linked acids with seventeen carbon-atoms are unknown, but with eighteen we know⟳ of oleïc acid and its isomers, elaïdic acid and iso-oleïc acid. Oleïc acid and elaïdic acid have⟳ one structure⟳ which has been differently interpreted as either one or other of these”

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