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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