Difference between soap and glycerol

soap

Definitions

verb

  1. rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning

noun

  1. money offered as a bribe
  2. street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
  3. a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats

Examples

I have sprayed them a couple of times with soapy water, which kills some of them but doesn't harm beneficial insects like ladybirds.

Or did her pushy mother and absent father turn her life into a sordid soap opera?

Tru hung her gown away safely, then tore off her sweat-soaked uniform before she sloshed water all over her body, scrubbing away her stench with soap.

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glycerol

Definitions

noun

  1. a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils

Examples

By this method, sulpho-compounds of the glyceride are first formed, which readily emulsify with water, and, on treatment with steam, liberate fatty acids, the glycerol remaining partly in the form of glycero-sulphuric acid.

It is thus obvious that picric acid is much less explosive than the nitric ethers, such as nitro-glycerol and nitro-cellulose, and very considerably less explosive than the nitrogen compounds and fulminates.

The cryoprotectants used are colligative in action, glucose and glycerol are two of the most common cryoprotectants (a particular species confines itself to the use of a single cryoprotectant).

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