glycerol

How To Use glycerol In A Sentence

• 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. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
• 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. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
• 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). Archive 2004-09-01
• Slides were mounted using glycerol - gelatin and photographed at a magnification of x79 using a Zeiss photomicroscope.
• OBJECTIVE To observe the clinical effect of nystatin with glycerol on prevention of oral cavity fungal infection in serious patients.
• Fatty acids are translated to energy by the lipases, the enzymes that break triglycerides into three fatty acids and a glycerol molecule.
• Another derivative, guaiacol glyceryl ether, is an ingredient in cough medicines, and glycerol methacrylate is used in the manufacture of soft contact lenses to make them permeable to air.
• This is caused by a dehydration reaction between the hydroxyl group from the glycerol and the carboxyl groups of the fatty acids.
• For freeze fractures the glutaraldehyde-fixed cells were infiltrated with 30% glycerol.
• Adipose tissue triacylglycerols are the quantitatively most important source of stored energy in animals.