vegetaline

English

Etymology

vegetal +‎ -ine

Noun

vegetaline (uncountable)

1. (dated) A substitute for ivory, etc., made by treating woody fibre with sulphuric acid, mixing with various ingredients, and pressing into any required form.
   • 1901 November 22, The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎^[1], volume 4, number 19, page 587:

     It is called vegetaline, and it is nothing else than the oil extracted from copra (dried cocoanut), refined, and with all smell and taste neutralised by a patented process.

   • 1915, “Vegetaline as basis for surgical liquid soaps”, in Chemical Abstracts‎^[2], volume 9, number 3, page 3328:

     Since the warm solns. of Na soaps form gels upon cooling, even in diln. of 1:400, only K soaps can be used, best made from vegetaline, a com. form of coconut oil.

   • 1917, Commerce Reports, volume 1, number 48, page 784:

     A company in Spain desires to purchase vegetaline, fusion point to be 36 to 38 degrees centigrade. The vegetaline must be guaranteed free of mineral or animal fats, and contain only vegetable oils, not including copra oil.