Defenition of the word saponification

• Defenition of the word saponification

  • a chemical reaction in which an ester is heated with an alkali (especially the alkaline hydrolysis of a fat or oil to make soap)

Hypernyms for the word saponification

• • chemical reaction
  • reaction

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