Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or derived from oil.
- adjective Of or relating to oleic acid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or derived from oil. Also
elaic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol.Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, oil; At low temperatures the acid is crystalline, but melts to an oily liquid above 14° C.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
oil , especially tovegetable oil - adjective chemistry Of or pertaining to
oleic acid or its derivatives
Etymologies
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Examples
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Researchers at Northwestern University's Feinberg Medical School showed in a series of laboratory experiments on breast-cancer cells that the monounsaturated fat called oleic acid, found in olive oil, dramatically cuts the levels of a cancer-promoting gene called Her-2/neu while boosting the effectiveness of treatment.
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Soap - a surfactant called oleic acid - might help the growing crystals disperse evenly.
Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment 2010
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Soap -- a surfactant called oleic acid -- might help the growing crystals disperse evenly.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Soap -- a surfactant called oleic acid -- might help the growing crystals disperse evenly.
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Soap -- a surfactant called oleic acid -- might help the growing crystals disperse evenly.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The researchers thought that paraffin wax, which is made up of long straight molecules that don't react with much, might help line things up, while soap, a surfactant called oleic acid, might help the growing crystals disperse evenly.
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Soap -- a surfactant called oleic acid -- might help the growing crystals disperse evenly.
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Last week we cited the work of ant researcher E.O. Wilson in telling you that dead ants are carried away by their comrades because ants 'corpses emit a chemical called oleic acid.
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Soap -- a surfactant called oleic acid -- might help the growing crystals disperse evenly.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Almost three-quarters of the total fat of olive oil are monounsaturated fat (in the form of one particular fatty acid called oleic acid).
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