myristaten.
/mʌɪˈrɪsteɪt/, /mᵻˈrɪsteɪt/, U.S. /maɪˈrɪsteɪt/, /mᵻˈrɪsteɪt/ Chemistry.
A salt or ester of myristic acid. Also forming the names of certain chemical compounds.
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1848 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 6) 1263 Myristate of potassa,..Myristate of baryta.
1868 H. B. Jones & H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 731 The myristates of the alkali-metals..are soluble in water.
1930 Org. Syntheses 10 64 Ethyl myristate [has been reduced] to myristyl alcohol..by using this same procedure.
1987 Nature 11 June 482 (heading) Analogies with other myristylated proteins suggest that the myristate moiety in picornaviruses may be involved in capsid assembly.
1993 Homemaker's Mag. (Toronto) Apr. 115/2 Various chemicals, such as isopropyl myristate, are found in makeup products.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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