glycerol tripalmitate

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   a triglyceride of palmitic acid

   Synonymstripalmitin

   Broaderglyceryl ester

Questions about glycerol tripalmitate

What does glycerol tripalmitate mean?

glycerol tripalmitate means "a triglyceride of palmitic acid".

What is another word for glycerol tripalmitate?

Close synonyms include tripalmitin. 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 glycerol tripalmitate a common word?

glycerol tripalmitate 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.