CAP'RIN, CAP'RINE, a compound of capric acid and glycerine found in butter.
Of or pertaining to capric acid or its derivatives.
The less soluble portion (equal to about 1/20th of the dry mass) contains capric and caprylic acid; the larger and more soluble portion, butyric and caproic acid.
Capric or rutic acid crystallises in fine needles, which fuse at 86 deg.
The first distillate contains mostly acetic acid, besides a small quantity of butyric acid, the second the greater portion of the butyric acid besides a little acetic and capric acids, while the third consists chiefly of capric acid.
The crude butyric acid thus obtained and freed from water by shaking with calcium chloride, is a mixture of acetic, butyric, and capric acids, but does not contain propionic and valerianic acids.
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