Pertaining to, or designating, an artificial acid of the oleic acid series, isomeric with linoleic acid.
The stream of hydrogen blown through the hot oil converts the linoleic acid to oleic and then the oleic into stearic.
Linseed oil, which consists largely, as the name implies, of linoleic acid, will absorb oxygen on exposure to the air and become hard.
It contains glycerides of linoleic and especially palmitic acid.
The only reaction based upon the chemical constitution of fat is produced by treatment of oleic orlinoleic acid with nitrous acid, which therefore is of some value in the examination of drying oils.
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