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Myristic acid Moderate

Myristic acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a saturated fatty acid occurring naturally in animal and vegetable fats

2

A saturated fatty acid, CH₃(CH₂)₁₂COOH, tetradecanoic acid, found in both animal and vegetable oils and fats; used in the manufacture of soap, cosmetics etc.

See Also
tetradecanoic acid cosmetic myristone myristate fat fatty acid myristoyl myristylation
Related Terms
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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