fatty acid
any of a class of aliphatic acids, especially palmitic, stearic, or oleic acid, consisting of a long hydrocarbon chain ending in a carboxyl group that bonds to glycerol to form a fat.
Origin of fatty acid
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How to use fatty acid in a sentence
The key family of molecules that lead many to look to fish oil as a brain booster are the omega-3 fatty acids.
Fish Oil, Turmeric, and Ginseng, Oh My! Are ‘Brain Foods’ B.S.? | Dr. Anand Veeravagu, MD | October 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOpt for salmon, which has lots of omega-3 fatty acids that strengthen brainpower.
This will be acid in reaction and will be precipitated by the addition of water, in which the fatty acids are not soluble.
Pancreatic fluid similarly emulsifies fats and changes them into soft soaps and fatty acids.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterThe melting point of the fatty acids in the oils used to adulterate olive oil differs considerably from this.
In addition to these, the fat of coffee contains a certain percentage of free fatty acids.
All About Coffee | William H. UkersThe difference was found by Currie73 to be due to an actual difference in the combination of fatty acids present.
The Book of Cheese | Charles Thom and Walter Warner Fisk
British Dictionary definitions for fatty acid
any of a class of aliphatic carboxylic acids, such as palmitic acid, stearic acid, and oleic acid, that form part of a lipid molecule
another name for carboxylic acid, used esp of a naturally occurring one
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Scientific definitions for fatty acid
[ făt′ē ]
Any of a large group of organic acids, especially those found in animal and vegetable fats and oils. Fatty acids are mainly composed of long chains of hydrocarbons ending in a carboxyl group. A fatty acid is saturated when the bonds between carbon atoms are all single bonds. It is unsaturated when any of these bonds is a double bond.
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