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**voksveta** · 07-30-2012, 01:51 AM

If we want chemical names for "fat", there are a variety and I'm lazy and can't be bothered naming each of them specifically. Instead I'l leave 'u with the components to put together 'urself!

Stored fats mostly sit around as triglycerides (like measured in the blood tests, but obviously that's in the blood).

Triglycerides have two types of components: derived from glycerol (C3H8O3; propan-1,2,3-triol), and 3 fatty acid chains (hydrocarbon chains terminating in -COOH). The "tri-" refers to the 3 chains.

The -COOH parts attach to the oxygen parts in glycerol through esterification reactions.

Each of the hydrocarbon chains can be slightly different, and they therefore can have correspondingly different names like palmitic acid, stearic acid, linoleic acid, ...

07-30-2012, 01:51 AM	#23
voksveta Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 579 Senior Member	If we want chemical names for "fat", there are a variety and I'm lazy and can't be bothered naming each of them specifically. Instead I'l leave 'u with the components to put together 'urself! Stored fats mostly sit around as triglycerides (like measured in the blood tests, but obviously that's in the blood). Triglycerides have two types of components: derived from glycerol (C3H8O3; propan-1,2,3-triol), and 3 fatty acid chains (hydrocarbon chains terminating in -COOH). The "tri-" refers to the 3 chains. The -COOH parts attach to the oxygen parts in glycerol through esterification reactions. Each of the hydrocarbon chains can be slightly different, and they therefore can have correspondingly different names like palmitic acid, stearic acid, linoleic acid, ...
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