the colourless glyceride of palmitic acid, occurring in many natural oils and fats. Formula: (C15H31COO)3C3H5
Also called: tripalmitin
Word origin
C19: from French palmitine, probably from palmite pith of the palm tree; see palm2
Examples of 'tripalmitin' in a sentence
tripalmitin
Kinetic analysis established that tripalmitin acted as a mixed inhibitor.
Dioxelis Lopéz, Lilia Cherigo, Luis C. Mejia, Marco A. Loza-Mejía, Sergio Martínez-Luis 2019, 'α-Glucosidase inhibitors from a mangrove associated fungus, Zasmidium sp. strain EM5-10',BMC Chemistryhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13065-019-0540-8. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Several solvents (benzene, chloroform, hexane, methanol and water) are used to determine the quantitative extraction efficiency of tripalmitin.
Rosentreter Jeffrey J., Malamakal John, Barnes Kelli, Alexander Matt 2017, 'Solvent selection for fatty acid residue analysis of archeologicial artifacts', Sample Preparationhttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/sampre.2017.3.issue-1/sampre-2017-0001/sampre-2017-0001.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)