fatty acid

fatty acid

English

Noun

fatty acid (plural fatty acids)

1. (chemistry) Any of a class of aliphatic carboxylic acids, of general formula C_nH_2n+1COOH, that occur combined with glycerol as animal or vegetable oils and fats. Only those with an even number of carbon atoms are normally found in natural fats.
   • Note: The above general formula applies to the saturated fatty acids. Remove 2 hydrogen atoms for an unsaturated fatty acid, and 2 hydrogen atoms for every double bond in a polyunsaturated fatty acid.

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Related terms

• acetic acid - C₂
• butyric acid - C₄
• caproic acid - C₆
• caprylic acid - C₈
• capric acid - C₁₀
• lauric acid - C₁₂
• myristic acid - C₁₄
• palmitic acid - C₁₆

• stearic acid - C₁₈
• arachidic acid - C₂₀
• obtusilic acid, caproleic acid - C₁₀ unsaturated
• lauroleic acid, linderic acid - C₁₂ unsaturated
• myristoleic acid, physeteric acid, tsuzuic acid - C₁₄ unsaturated
• palmitoleic acid - C₁₆ unsaturated
• petroselinic acid, oleic acid, vaccenic acid - C₁₈ unsaturated

• gadoleic acid, gondoic acid - C₂₀ unsaturated
• cetoleic acid, erucis acid - C₂₂ unsaturated
• nervonic acid - C₂₄ unsaturated
• elaidic acid - C₁₈ trans-unsaturated
• linoleic acid - C₁₈ diunsaturated
• linolenic acid - C₁₈ polyunsaturated
• arachidonic acid - C₂₀ polyunsaturated

Translations

acid

Catalan: àcid gras m Chinese: Cantonese: 脂肪酸 (zi1 fong1 syun1) Mandarin: 脂肪酸 (zh) (zhīfángsuān), 脂酸 (zh) (zhīsuān) Min Nan: 脂肪酸 (chi-hông-sng, chí-hông-sng) Czech: mastná kyselina f Danish: fedtsyre c Dutch: vetzuur (nl) n Faroese: fitisýra f Finnish: rasvahappo (fi) French: acide gras (fr) m Galician: ácido graxo (gl) m German: Fettsäure (de) f Greek: λιπαρό οξύ n (liparó oxý) Hindi: वसीय अम्ल (vasīya amla) Hungarian: zsírsav (hu) Icelandic: fitusýra (is) f Irish: aigéad sailleach m Japanese: 脂肪酸 (ja) (しぼうさん, shibōsan)

Javanese: ꦲꦱꦩ꧀ꦊꦩꦏ꧀ (asam lemak) Kannada: ಕೊಬ್ಬಿನ ಆಮ್ಲ (kobbina āmla) Korean: 지방산 (ko) (jibangsan) (脂肪酸 (ko)) Latvian: taukskābe f Macedonian: масна киселина f (másna kisélina) Maori: waikawa ngako Norwegian: Bokmål: fettsyre m or f Nynorsk: feittsyre f Portuguese: ácido graxo (pt) m Romanian: acid gras (ro) m, acizi grași m pl Russian: жи́рная кислота́ f (žírnaja kislotá) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ма̑сна̄ киселѝна f Roman: mȃsnā kiselìna f Spanish: ácido graso m Sundanese: ᮃᮞᮙ᮪ ᮜᮨᮙᮊ᮪ (asam lemak) Swedish: fettsyra (sv) c Tamil: கொழுப்பு அமிலம் (koḻuppu amilam)