"Margarate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... light, and give the appearance of silky filaments. Some sorts of soap, in which insoluble margarates exist (Margaric acid is an oleaginous acid, formed from different animal and vegetable fatty substances. A margarate is a compound of this acid with soda, potash, or some other base, and is so named from its pearly lustre.), exhibit the same phenomenon when mixed with water; and what occurs in our experiments on a minute scale may occur ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell |
