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Definition of Palmitic acid

1. Noun. A saturated fatty acid that is the major fat in meat and dairy products.

Definition of Palmitic acid

1. Noun. (fatty acid) One of the most common saturated fatty acids; it is found in all animal and most vegetable oils and fats; it is used in the manufacture of soap etc. ¹

2. Noun. (organic compound) hexadecanoic acid, CH₃(CH₂)₁₄COOH ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Palmitic acid

1. One of the most widely distributed of fatty acids. The palmitoyl residue is one of the common acyl residues of membrane phospholipids. It is also found as a thioester attached to cystein residues on some membrane proteins. The proteins so modified are often transmembrane proteins and the modified residue is on the cytoplasmic surface of the membrane. The specificity of the transferase for the acyl residue is not high and both stearoyl and oleoyl residues can replace the palmitoyl residue. Compare: myristoylation. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Palmitic acid

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1. Practical physiological chemistry by Philip Bovier Hawk (1918)
"Try the solubility of palmitic acid in the same solvents as used on fats ... Determine the melting-point of palmitic acid by one of the methods given on ..."

2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"palmitic acid may be melted together with lauric and myristic acids. In certain proportions the mixtures are not separable by crystallisation from alcohol ..."

3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1856)
"Heintz ascribes this greater capability of crystallizing to the circumstance that at a temperature of 60° C. palmitic acid crystallizes out from the mixture ..."

4. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1921)
"(d) Determination of palmitic acid A direct method for the accurate determination of palmitic acid when in admixture with other solid acids is not yet ..."

5. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1904)
"(c) Determination of palmitic acid A method for the direct determination of palmitic acid in admixture with other solid acids is not yet known, but if, ..."

6. Practical physiological chemistry: A Book Designed for Use in Courses in by Philip Bovier Hawk (1916)
"Try the solubility of palmitic acid in the same solvents as used on fats ... Determine the melting-point of palmitic acid by one of the methods given on ..."

7. Fownes' Manual of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1878)
"It is a crystalline fat having a silky lustre. palmitic acid ... palmitic acid is a colorless, solid body, without tasto or smell, lighter than water. ..."

8. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1862)
"palmitic acid may also be procured by the saponification of spermaceti : according to Heintz ... palmitic acid, after repeated crystallization from alcohol, ..."

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