单词 | cerin |
释义 | cerinn. Chemistry. Categories » 1. ‘A waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from grated cork. (Cork contains from 1·8 to 2·5 per cent. of waxy matter.) Watts Dict. Chem. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > oil from wax butter of wax1662 cerin1850 wax-oil1852 mahua oil1854 mahua butter1889 1850 C. G. B. Daubeny Introd. Atomic Theory (ed. 2) viii. 258 Pure bees-wax is composed of two vegetable principles, the one..most readily dissolved being called cerin, that less so, myricin. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. 210 Wax contains three distinct principles—viz. cerine, myricine, and ceroleine. The cerine, or cerotic acid, forms the greatest part. c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 98/1 About twenty-two per cent. of a peculiar fatty acid (cerotic)..formerly named cerine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1850 |
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