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Some common examples of fatty acids:
- Butyric acid with 4 carbon atoms (contained in butter)
- Lauric acid with 12 carbon atoms (contained in coconut oil, palm kernel oil, and breast milk)
- Myristic acid with 14 carbon atoms (contained in cow's milk and dairy products)
- Palmitic acid with 16 carbon atoms (contained in palm oil and meat)
- Stearic acid with 18 carbon atoms (also contained in meat and cocoa butter)
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 14y agoYou could have been a bit more specific of what you mean by this, but I can give you the literal answer for what you just asked.
Hydrogenation.
That's it. That's the ONLY way you can saturate fatty acids.
Unsaturated fats are just fats that have a carbon to carbon double bond somewhere in the chain, instead of just being a straight line of carbon to carbon single bonds with hydrogen all around the edges, and the carboxyl group (a single carbon bonded to an OH, and double bonded to an O) on one end (usually found in diagrams on the left end).
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∙ 10y agolauric, myristic, palmitic and stearic acids
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What are nitrogenous waste examples of?
fatty acids
What are unsaturated fatty acids?
Unsaturated fatty acids are fatty acids that have double bonds in their long carbon chains.
Is fatty acids a disaccharide?
No. Fatty acids are lipids. Disaccharides are carbohydrates.
What is sterified fatty acids?
Fatty acids can be sterified to a glycerol molecule.
How are hydrocarbon fatty acids classified depending upon their nature?
Fatty acids are NOT hydrocarbons. Fatty acids are carboxylic acids containing the functional group -COOH. Hydrocarbons contain only carbon and hydrogen. It is absolutely crucial in all branches of chemistry to know exactly what the words mean and to use them precisely. Carboxylic acids have the general formula RCOOH, where the R is nearly always made of carbon and hydrogen. There are several ways to classify them, but the one met most frequently looks at the saturation of the R- group. If there are no double bonds it is saturated, one double bond makes it mono-unsaturated, and many double bonds make it polyunsaturated.
Triglycerides can be classified by which of the following characteristics?
the length of the fatty acidsthe saturation of the fatty acidsthe shape of the fatty acids
What factors affect membrane fluidity?
cholesterol levels, degree of saturation of fatty acids, temperature
What are nitrogenous waste examples of?
fatty acids
Triglycerides are classified by what?
The shape, length, and saturation of the fatty acids are ways that triglycerides are classified. Triglycerides are classified as a fat.
Fats are classified as free fatty acids triglycerides phospholipids and?
Lipids. Few examples are: free fatty acids, triglycerides, phospholipids and cholesterol.
What are some examples of a process?
e.g -respirationAnother Perspective:Three examples would be the human body's metabolism (oxidative degradation) of: fatty acids, amino acids, and monosaccarides.
What is the most common building blocks of lipids?
Fatty acids and glycerol
What is the composition of a lipid?
glycerol and 3 fatty acids.. The length of fatty acid chains and the saturation will give different kinds of lipids. Some lipids called as phospholipids as the contain one phosphoric acid molecule instead of one fatty acid..
Distinguish between saturated fatty acids and saturated fatty acids?
There is no difference between saturated fatty acids and saturated fatty acids. If you meant saturated fatty acids and UNsaturated fatty acids, then the unsaturated ones are the ones with double (or, theoretically, triple) bonds in the carbon chain.
What are unsaturated fatty acids?
Unsaturated fatty acids are fatty acids that have double bonds in their long carbon chains.
What are components of fats?
Fat is made up of fatty acids and glycerol. A triglyceride is formed when a glycerol forms with three fatty acids.
What are the monomers of triglyceride?
1 glycerol and 3 fatty acids so the monomers basically are glycerol and fatty acids
