SUBJECT INDEX 



953 



Mountain arnica flowers, helenien in, 559 



lutein epoxide in, 561 



physalien in, 559 

 Moimtain-ash berries, o-carotene in, 535, 



536 

 Mountain bamboo leaf wax, 378 

 Mowrah butter, "association ratio" of 

 fatty acids in, 219, 220 



composition, 206, 219 



glyceride composition, 233 

 M.R.C. unit for vitamin D, 783 

 Mullein flowers, crocetin from, 599 

 Muscarine, 426 

 Muscle, cholesterol in, 325 



human, tocopherols in, 802 



rat, tocopherols in, 799, 800 



vitamin A in, 684 

 Muscular dystrophy, vitamin E and, 794 

 Mushrooms, ergosterol in, 746 



vitamins D in, 773 

 Muskmelon, phytofluene in, 662 

 Muskmelon seed oil, composition, 199 

 Musk-plant, lutein in flowers of, 557 

 Mussel, astaxanthin in, 590 



a-carotene in, 535 



provitamin D in, 747 



activated, biopotency, 781 

 melting point, 749 

 specific rotation, 749 

 ^Ttistard flowers, violaxanthin in, 567 

 Mustardseed oil, as semi-drying oil, 301 



composition, 202, 203 



constants, 236 



erucic acid in, 201 

 Mutatochrome, 526 

 Mutatoxanthin, 565, 566 



absorption spectra, 611 



properties, 605 

 Mutton fat, composition, 192, 193 



constants, 236 



glyceride composition, 232 



palmitodistearin from, 210 



random distribution in, 221 



stearodipalmitin from, 210 



tristearin from. 207 

 Mycocerosic acid, 32. 35 

 Mycolic acid, discovery, 32 



in tubercle bacilli, 383 



structure, 35 

 Mycosterols, 321 



occurrence and properties, 355-361 

 Myelin forms of lecithin, 416 



Myricinic acid, in mountain bamboo 

 leaf wax, 378 

 in sugar-cane wax, 377 

 //-Myricyl alcohol, density, 307 

 freezing point, 307 

 in apple cuticle wax, 381 

 in carnauba wax, 374 

 in Chinese wax, 368 

 in Japan wax, 380 

 in mountain bamboo leaf wax, 378 

 in sugar-cane wax, 377 

 long spacings, 317 

 occurrence, 308 

 Mj'ricyl carnaubate, in carnauba wax, 374 

 Myricyl cerotate (Cm), in carnauba wax, 

 374 

 in stingless bee wax, 365 

 melting point, 362 

 Myricyl hydroxypalmitate, in yellow 



beeswax, 366 

 Myricyl isobehenate, in corn wax, 382 



melting point, 362 

 Myricyl laccerate, melting point, 362 

 Myricyl lignocerate, in Chinese wax, 368 

 Myricyl myricinate, in sugar-cane wax. 

 377 

 melting point, 362 

 Myricyl palmitate, in yellow beeswax. 366 

 in stingless bee wax, 365 

 in sugar-cane wax, 377 

 melting point, 362 

 Myricyl palmitoleate, in yellow bee.swax, 



366 

 Myricyl tetracosanate, in corn wax, 382 



melting point, 362 

 Myri.staldehyde, constants. 128 

 Myristamide, melting point, 138 

 Myristic acid 

 absorption spectrum, 80, 81 

 boiling point, 110 

 content, in animal fats. 184—195 

 in human fat, 194 

 in milk fats, 195 

 in seed fats, 205 



in stearic acid-rich vegetable fats, 206 

 density, 100 



deposition in animal fat, 237 

 discoverj-, 12 

 long spacings, 97 

 melting point, 50 

 molecular refractivity, 104 

 molecular volume, 102 



