Fatty-oil
noun, Chemistry.
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noun
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another name for fixed oil
fatty oil n.
A nonvolatile oil of animal or plant derivation, chemically a glyceride of a fatty acid, that is not capable of distillation and that is convertible into a soap by substituting the glycerine with an alkaline base.
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