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The Meaning of palmitic

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, palmitin or palm oil; as, palmitic acid, a white crystalline body belonging to the fatty acid series. It is readily soluble in hot alcohol, and melts to a liquid oil at 62¡ C.

Rhymes

analytic , arthritic , bittick , catalytic , chittick , citic , critic , cushitic , dendritic , diacritic , electrolytic , granitic , halophytic , hamitic , hemolytic , hermaphroditic , neritic , paralytic , parasitic , psychoanalytic , semitic , soditic , svitak , thrombolytic , zitek