Vocabulary : Steapsin to Steatite
Steapsin : An unorganized ferment or enzyme present in pancreatic juice. It decomposes neutral fats into glycerin and fatty acids.Stearate : A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates.
Stearic : Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow.
Stearin : One of the constituents of animal fats and also of some vegetable fats, as the butter of cacao. It is especially characterized by its solidity, so that when present in considerable quantity it materially increases the hardness, or raises the melting point, of the fat, as in mutton tallow. Chemically, it is a compound of glyceryl with three molecules of stearic acid, and hence is technically called tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate.
Stearolic : Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearis acid, and obtained, as a white crystalline substance, from oleic acid.
