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Tab Title: Saturated Fatty Acid

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Palmitic acid
CH3-(CH2)14-COOH

A shorthand way to describe this structure is 16C.

Tab Title: Unsaturated Fatty Acid

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Oleic acid
CH3-(CH2)7-CH=CH-(CH2)7-COOH
In shorthand this is 18C, ∆1.


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