meaning of saponification

1. The act, process, or result, of soap making; conversion into soap; specifically (Chem. ), the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies; as, the saponification of ethyl acetate.
2.
a chemical reaction in which an ester is heated with an alkali especially the alkaline hydrolysis of a fat or oil to make soap


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