calcium stearate

1. 1.

   an insoluble calcium salt of stearic acid and palmitic acid; it is formed when soap is mixed with water that contains calcium ions and is the scum produced in regions of hard water

   Synonymscalcium octadecanoate

   Broadersalt

Questions about calcium stearate

What does calcium stearate mean?

calcium stearate means "an insoluble calcium salt of stearic acid and palmitic acid; it is formed when soap is mixed with water that contains calcium ions and is the scum produced in regions of hard water".

What is another word for calcium stearate?

Close synonyms include calcium octadecanoate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calcium stearate a common word?

calcium stearate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.