Ester (disambiguation)

An ester is a functional group in organic chemistry; specifically a chemical compound derived from an acid in which at least one hydroxyl group is replaced by alkoxy group.

Ester may also refer to:

Food additives and chemistry

  • Ester C, ascorbyl palmitate, used as an antioxidant food additive
  • Ester gum, or Ester of wood rosin, a food additive used as an emulsifier and stabiliser
  • Ester pyrolysis, a vacuum pyrolysis reaction

Geography

People

  • Ester, the Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese version of the female given name Esther
  • Laura Ester (1990), Spanish female water polo goalkeeper
  • Peter Ester (born 1953), Dutch sociologist and politician

Music

Classical

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gollark: That's not how equality works.
gollark: I am currently an atheist due to not having any good reason to believe anything else.
gollark: Not particularly. If you prevent everyone from learning maths, you'll run out of engineers and such, which would cause problems as you need them to make good yachts.
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