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English
Noun
elaïdic acid (uncountable)
- Obsolete form of elaidic acid.
1842 March, M. Meyer, “Investigations Concerning Elaïdic Acid”, in The Chemist; or, Reporter of Chemical Discoveries and Improvements, and Protector of the Rights of the Chemist and Chemical Manufacturer, volume III, number XXVII, London, page 75, column 2:I prepared elaïdic ether by passing a current of muriatic acid gas into an alcoholic solution of elaïdic acid; the ether produced was agitated with water to remove the muriatic acid, and then with alcohol, to separate it from any elaïdic acid not converted into ether, and finally with water, to free it from this alcohol.
1874 September 3, “Manufacture of Stearine, &c.”, in English Patents of Inventions, Specifications, number 3021, page 4:I have observed that to transform oleic acid or elaïdic acid into palonitic acid it suffices to choose amongst the reactions which produce elaïdic acid that which produces at the same time nascent hydrogen, whether it is obtained direct or by any other means.
1895, F Peckel Möller, Cod-Liver Oil and Chemistry, London: Peter Möller, , part II (Oxygen Compounds), page 192:Doubly linked acids with seventeen carbon-atoms are unknown, but with eighteen we know of oleïc acid and its isomers, elaïdic acid and iso-oleïc acid. Oleïc acid and elaïdic acid have one structure which has been differently interpreted as either one or other of these