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Lauric acid Moderate

Lauric acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a crystalline fatty acid occurring as glycerides in natural fats and oils (especially coconut oil and palm-kernel oil)

2

A saturated fatty acid, CH₃(CH₂)₁₀COOH, occurring in coconut, palm and laurel oil; mostly used in making cosmetics and soaps

See Also
dodecanoic acid soap laurone fatty acid saturated fatty acid coconut dodecoic acid hordeic acid
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
saturated fatty 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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