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fatty alcohol

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noun

  1. any of several long-chain alcohols from animals or plants, analogous to the fatty acids, used in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, detergents, plastics, etc.

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It is a huge organic compound, technically classified as a fatty alcohol, that disrupts a molecular pump found in cell membranes.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2017

For the last decade or so, some researchers have been casting this fatty alcohol as the villain.

From Time Magazine Archive

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