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saponifying


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Saponify  \Sa*pon"i*fy\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Saponified};  p.  pr 
  &  vb  n.  {Saponifying}.]  [L.  sapo,  -onis,  soap  +  -fy:  cf  F. 
  saponifier.] 
  To  convert  into  soap,  as  tallow  or  any  fat;  hence  (Chem.),  to 
  subject  to  any  similar  process,  as  that  which  ethereal  salts 
  undergo  in  decomposition;  as  to  saponify  ethyl  acetate. 




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