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The double bond in the cis-unsaturated olive oil is bent in the center and doesn't pack well into a crystal lattice necessary to make it a solid, so it turns out to be liquid at room temperature. Hydrogenated olive oil however is a solid because all of its double bonds are trans and it can fit into a crystal lattice.

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