saponified's Usage Examples:

To prepare it olive oil is saponified with potash, and lead acetate added; the lead salts are separated, dried, and extracted with ether, which dissolves the lead oleate; the solution is then treated with hydrochloric acid, the lead chloride filtered off, the liquid concentrated, and finally distilled under diminished pressure.

In the first way the ordinary oil and the coco nut oil are mixed and saponified together as described above.

According to the second plan, the ordinary oil is treated as for the preparation of a curd soap, and to this the coconut soap separately saponified is added in the pan and both are boiled together till they form a homogeneous soap.

It is saponified by alkalies, with reproduction of soluble gum.

Their amount can be determined in a direct manner by exhausting the saponified mass, after dilution with water, with ether, evaporating the latter and weighing the amount of mineral oil left behind.

Synonyms:

change, alter, modify,

Antonyms:

stiffen, decrease, tune, dissimilate,