How To Use Cerotic acid In A Sentence

• It is a mixture of myricine, cerotic acid, and cerolein, the first of which is insoluble in boiling alcohol, the second is soluble in hot alcohol and crystallizes out on cooling, while the third remains dissolved in cold alcohol. Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884
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• They are extremely complex in composition, the former consisting principally of an acid similar to the fatty acids, called cerotic acid, and containing Elements of Agricultural Chemistry
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• To avoid this, the quantity of alkali required to saponify the myricine is first ascertained, and then that required to saturate the free cerotic acid. Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884
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