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tall oil

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tall oil [′täl ‚ȯil]
(materials)
A yellow-black, malodorous, resinous admixture of rosin, fatty acids, sterols, high-molecular-weight alcohols, and other materials, derived from wood-pulping waste liquors; used in paint drying oils, alkyd resins, linoleum, soaps, lubricants, and greases. Also known as liquid rosin; tallol.


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She identified economical feed-stocks, such as tall oil acids deriving from pine trees which upon esterification with select alcohols resulted in ester plasticizers with a glass transition temperature of minus 130[degrees]C.
Contents include: introduction and principles of chemical recovery, evaporation and concentration of black liquor, noncondensible gases, tall oil soap recovery, chemical recovery and process chemistry, chemical recovery equipment, cooking liquor preparation, and lime reburning: the rotary lime kiln 1992.
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