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14 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a chemical reaction in which an ester is heated with an alkali (especially the alkaline hydrolysis of a fat or oil to make soap)
originFrom French saponification, from saponifier (“saponify”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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