Saponification is a process of cleaving esters into carboxylate salts and alcohols by the action of aqueous alkali. Typically aqueous sodium hydroxide...

Saponification value or saponification number (SV or SN) represents the number of milligrams of potassium hydroxide (KOH) or sodium hydroxide (NaOH) required...

the caustic processes that rendered soaps from fats in the process of saponification, one known since antiquity. Plant potash lent the name to the element...

nucleophile, while an alkoxide is the leaving group. This reaction, saponification, is the basis of soap making. The alkoxide group may also be displaced...

graffiti removal, molecular steel passivation against rust, oil removal by saponification and translocation, masonry cleaning and restoration, soot remediation...

part remaineth with us. The chemical process of adipocere formation, saponification, came to be understood in the 17th century when microscopes became widely...

solutions, it feels slippery with skin contact due to the process of saponification that occurs between NaOH and natural skin oils. Concentrated (50%) aqueous...

Perhaps the oldest commercially practiced example of ester hydrolysis is saponification (formation of soap). It is the hydrolysis of a triglyceride (fat) with...

fat. Palmitic acid was discovered by Edmond Frémy (in 1840) in the saponification of palm oil, which process remains today the primary industrial route...

made with sodium hydroxide), brings about a chemical reaction known as saponification. In this reaction, the triglyceride fats are first hydrolyzed into free...