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Do saturated fatty acids have the maximum number of hydrogen atoms?
It depends on the length of the fatty acid chain. A fatty acid that has the maximum number of hydrogen atoms is saturated. The maximum number of hydrogen atoms will occur when the carbon atoms are all single-bonded to one another (no double bonds).
Which type of fatty acids has two or more carbon double bonds?
Fatty acids that contain carbon atoms linked by double or triple bonds are unsaturated. They do not have the maximum number of hydrogen atoms possible.
What is the lipids that contain the maximum number of carbon and hydrogen possible?
A saturated hydrocarbon. Fats of a solider nature.
Fats composed of fatty acids that have double bonds in the fatty acids and have fewer than the maximim number of hydrogen atoms are?
unsaturated
Do liquid fats called oils contain more hydrogen atoms than hard fats?
No. Oils have less hydrogen atoms as compared to fats. Because oils contain double bonds and fats are saturated.
What are the chemical difference between unsaturated and saturated fat?
All fats contain chains of carbon atoms bonded to hydrogen atoms. In a saturated fat the carbon atoms in the chains are boned to as many hydrogen atoms as possible (that is, 2 each, with the last carbon bonded to 3) and all carbon-carbon bonds are single bonds. In an unsaturated fat some of the carbons are not bonded to the maximum number of hydrogen atoms, and those carbon atoms that are missing hydrogen atoms are double bonded to a neighboring carbon.
What is the structural different between a polyunsoturated fats and saturated fact?
unsat. fats have fewer hydrogen atoms because of double bonds between some carbon atoms. sat. fats have all the hydrogen possible.
Manufacturers make vegetable oils solid or semisolid at room temperature by?
The process called "hydrogenation" adds chemical bonds within the oil to decrease the number of double carbon bonds, changing the fat from unsaturated (fewer hydrogen bonds) to saturated (more hydrogen bonds).Saturated fats tend to be solids.
What is a saturated fat saturated with?
Saturated fats are saturated with hydrogen atoms.
What is a fat with no carbon-carbon double bonds called?
Saturated. This is because with no carbon-carbon double bonds the bonding sites are taken up by hydrogen, thus saturated. These saturated fats are solider tha unsaturated fats containing carbon-carbon double bonds.
Are unsaturated fats solid?
Unsaturated fats are generally not solid. They are often found in plant oils. Saturated fats, on the other hand, are solid because they have the maximum number of hydrogens bonded. They are generally found in animal fats. One way of explaining why saturated fats are solid is that because they have the maximum number of hydrogens bonded, they tend to be linear molecules. On the other hand, unsaturated fats have one of more double bonds, bending the molecule. As a result, the saturated fats "pack" together better than the bend unsaturated fats, allowing for stronger intermolecular interactions, increasing the melting point.
What do solid fats have a high porportion of?
They have a high number of saturated bonds.
