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Fat is a fluid similar to vegetable oils, inodorous, and lighter than water; besides the elements common to water, to oils, and wax, it contains carbon, hydrogen, and sebacic acid, which is pretty similar to the acetic.

Sē′bāte, a salt formed by the combination of sebacic acid with a base.—adj.

It is also obtained when sebacic, stearic and oleic acids are oxidized with nitric acid.

XLII.—Observations upon the Sebacic Acid, and its Combinations with the Salifiable Bases, 286 SECT.

By this process the sebacic acid unites with the lime into a sebat of lime, which is difficultly soluble in water; it is, however, separated from the fatty matters with which it is mixed by solution in a large quantity of boiling water.