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单词 cerin
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cerinn.

/ˈsɪərɪn/
Etymology: < Latin cēra wax + -in suffix1.
Chemistry.
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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.
2. ‘A name applied by John to the portion of beeswax which is readily soluble in alcohol; according to Brodie…merely impure cerotic acid’.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > oil from wax
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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).
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