cetyl palmitate

The cetyl ester of palmitic acid (cetyl palmitate) occurs in spermaceti.

One of its main constituents is cetyl palmitate, another ester of a fatty acid and a fatty alcohol.

Coral reefs are built from stony coral, which evolved with large amounts of the wax cetyl palmitate in their tissues.

It is composed mostly of wax esters (chiefly cetyl palmitate) and a smaller proportion of triglycerides.

They include cetyl myristoleate, cetyl myristate, cetyl palmitoleate, cetyl laureate, cetyl palmitate, and cetyl oleate.

Spermaceti consists principally of cetyl palmitate (the ester of cetyl alcohol and palmitic acid), CHCOO-CH.