Letter Published: 11 July 1925 The Structure of Stearic and Stearolic Acid ALEX MULLER Nature 116, 45 (1925) Cite this article ...

Letter Published: 15 April 1950 Structure of Stearic Acid Films on Copper J. A. SPINK Nature 165, 612–613 (1950) Cite this article ...

Stearic acid has many modern uses and while it was unclear from [Jason]’s reasearch exactly when in history it became commonplace, at least one source mentioned it as a candidate for hardening ...