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What are the chemical difference between unsaturated and saturated fat?
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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.
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What is the chemical difference between a saturated and an unsaturated fats?
Unsaturated fats have double or triple carbon bonds.
What is the difference between unsaturated and saturated solution?
Hmmm........... their is a primary difference between saturated and non saturated solution i.e the saturated solution has no more tendencey or capacity to dissolve some more solute while unsaturated solution can dissolve more solute to extent it become saturated.............Ajwa
What is the difference between saturated zone and unsaturated zone?
Something is saturated when every available space is filled with liquid, and something is unsaturated when some or all of the spaces inside the contain air.
How would you differentiate between saturated unsaturated and super saturated?
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What are the two categories of these are saturated and unsaturated?
Fat can be either saturated or unsaturated. It can not be both at the same time. If there is one or more double bonds between carbon atoms, the fat become unsaturated. If all the bonds between carbon atoms are single bonds, the fat becomes saturated.
Explain the difference between a saturated and an unsaturated polyester?
the difference is in the backbone... if the backbone is unsaturated then it is an unsaturated polyester, if the backbone is saturated then it is a saturated polyester...
What is the chemical difference between a saturated and an unsaturated fats?
Unsaturated fats have double or triple carbon bonds.
What the difference between saturated triglycerides and unsaturated?
Saturated triglycerides have more hydrogen's than unsaturated triglycerides.
What are the difference between saturated and unsaturated solution?
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What is the difference between a saturated an a unsaturated fatty acid?
Unsaturated fatty acids have double bond or triple bonds, whereas saturated fatty acids do not.
What is the difference in the way saturated and unsaturated fats act in the body?
The difference between saturated and unsaturated fats lies in the bond, because the shapes determine how the various fats act in the body.
Nutritionally saturated triglycerides are considered less healthful than unsaturated What is one major difference between them?
Saturated triglycerides have more hydrogens than unsaturated triglycerides
What is the main difference between saturated and unsaturated fatty acids?
Saturated fats contain only single bonds between carbons, whereas unsaturated fats contain at least one double bond.
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.
How is saturated carbon compound different from an unsaturated one?
the difference between saturated and unsaturated compound is that it decolurize kmn and do addition reactions for example CH2=CH2 + br2__________ CH2Br_CH2Br
What is the difference between the saturated zones and unsaturated zone?
Something is saturated when every available space is filled with liquid, and something is unsaturated when some or all of the spaces inside the contain air.
What is the Difference between saturated and unsaturated lipid?
The difference is related to which long chain fatty acid is incorporated. If it is a fatty acid that has double bonds, then it is an unsaturated lipid. If it contains fatty acids that have no double bonds, then it is a saturated lipid.
