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Definition of Glycerol

1. Noun. A sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils.

Definition of Glycerol

1. n. Same as Glycerin.

Definition of Glycerol

1. Noun. (organic compound) 1,2,3-trihydroxy-propane or propan-1,2,3-triol; a trihydric alcohol ¹

2. Noun. A syrupy sweet liquid obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of soap from animal or vegetable oils and fats; it is used as an antifreeze, a plasticizer, and a food sweetener and in the manufacture of dynamite, cosmetics etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Glycerol

1. a syrupy alcohol [n -S]

Medical Definition of Glycerol

1. A metabolic intermediate, but primarily of interest as the central structural component of the major classes of biological lipids, triglycerides and phosphatidyl phospholipids. Also used as a cryoprotectant. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glycerol

Literary usage of Glycerol

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"glycerol is completely oxidised to carbon dioxide and water by potassium ... Dry potassium permanganate reacts violently with concentrated glycerol. ..."

2. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1921)
"It is found in the free state in fermented alcoholic liquors,3 and also in blood.4 The production of glycerol by the action of yeast on molasses has now ..."

3. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"Concentrated alcohol absorbs water about 4 times as rapidly as concentrated glycerol. Analysis of Crude glycerol.3—(International Standard Methods, 1911. ..."

4. Studies on Solution in Its Relation to Light Absorption, Conductivity by Paul Bell Davis, Harry Clary Jones (1918)
"A NOTE ON THE VISCOSITY OF CESIUM SALTS IN glycerol- WATER MIXTURES. BY PB DAVIS. The study of the viscosity of solution in glycerol and in binary mixtures ..."

5. Experimental Organic Chemistry by James Flack Norris (1915)
"Test the solubility of glycerol in water, alcohol, ether, petroleum ether, ... Conversion of glycerol into acrolein.—Cover the bottom of a test-tube with ..."

6. Experimental Organic Chemistry by James Flack Norris (1915)
"Test the solubility of glycerol in water, alcohol, ether, petroleum ether, and benzene. (6) Conversion of glycerol into acrolein. ..."

7. A Study of the Absorption Spectra of Solutions of Certain Salts of Potassium by Harry Clary Jones, William Walker Strong (1910)
"It is then mixed with glycerol and warmed. The warming is continued until as ... Plate 87, C, represents the absorption spectra of a glycerol solution of ..."

8. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1898)
"glycerol is a triatomic alcohol, and bears the same relation to ethyl ... The name glycerol has reference to its chemical position as an alcohol. ..."

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