>If so the chemical base for miteaway 2 pads would not be an ester but a
strearate?
Hi Bob,
My guess is that your correspondent misspelled "stearate." As far as I
know, there is no such thing as a "strearate."
You could form an ester from stearic acid, and it would be called a
something stearate.
However, a formic acid ester would be called a "formate," like methyl
formate.
Randy Oliver
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