What is triglycerid?

Answer 1

A tricglyceride is a glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues; it consists of the esters of three fatty acids on a glycerin "backbone".

Its chemical structure looks like this:

H2C - O - CO - R1

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HC - O - CO - R2

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H2C - O - CO - R3

Here, each of the R parts is a hydrocarbon tail (possibly with side branches or double bonds). A triglyceride is made by combining glycerine with fatty acid. Glycerine looks like this:

H2C - OH

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HC - OH

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H2C - OH

and a fatty acid is like this:

R - COOH