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Cerotic acid Moderate

Cerotic acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a white solid fatty acid found in waxes (such as beeswax)

2

A very-long-chain saturated fatty acid, CH₃(CH₂)₂₄COOH, found in beeswax and carnauba wax.

See Also
hexacosanoic acid carnauba very long chain wax saturated fatty acid cerotic beeswax
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
acid
Rhyming Words
cid acid scid picid arcid alcid mucid lucid ficid lycid coccid esocid odacid marcid muscid raucid chacid viscid caecid diacid
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