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Butter is an organic molecule, more specifically a fatty acid hydrocarbon. It is formed from long chains of carbon molecules with attached hydrogen atoms; on one end of the chain it is typically linked into a triglyceride molecule and on the other end there tends to be a hydroxyl group.

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