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palmitin

Palmitin is a 8 letter word which starts with the letter P and ends with the letter N for which we found 1 definitions.

Definition
(n.) A solid crystallizable fat found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues with olein and butyrin in butter with olein in olive oil etc. Chemically it is a glyceride of palmitic acid three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl and hence it is technically called tripalmitin or glyceryl tripalmitate.
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