Talk:Sorbitan monostearate
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[edit] Cetyl alcohol and stearyl alcohol
what is the major difference between cetyl alcohol and stearyl alcohol?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 57.66.44.197 (talk • contribs)
- They differ by the length of the carbon chain. Wikipedia has articles for cetyl alcohol and stearyl alcohol which give more detail. -- Ed (Edgar181) 16:35, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Discovery
I removed the statement, "It was discovered by Marc Fraser, a Canadian chemist, in 1987" because there are references to sorbitan monostearate in the chemical literature going back to the 1940s. -- Ed (Edgar181) 16:35, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
