glycerol tristearate

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   a triglyceride of stearic acid

   Synonymstristearin

   Broaderglyceryl ester

Questions about glycerol tristearate

What does glycerol tristearate mean?

glycerol tristearate means "a triglyceride of stearic acid".

What is another word for glycerol tristearate?

Close synonyms include tristearin. 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 tristearate a common word?

glycerol tristearate 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.