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Ricinoleic acid Moderate

Ricinoleic acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

an oily fatty acid found in castor oil and used in soap

2

A crystalline unsaturated hydroxy fatty acid C₁₈H₃₄O₃ that yields esters important as plasticizers and whose glyceride (ricinolein) is the main component of castor oil.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
unsaturated 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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