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Definition: Fatty Acid |
Fatty AcidNoun1. Any of a class of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids that form part of a lipid molecule and can be derived from fat by hydrolysis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Chemistry | Industrial mixture of fatty acids obtained by the saponification of fats and oils or other processes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemistry | Any of the monocarboxylic acids that occur naturally in fats, waxes, essential and fatty oils. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Industrially, fatty acids are produced by the hydrolysis of the ester linkages in a fat or biological oil (triglycerides), with the removal of glycerol. See oleochemicals.
Saturated fatty acids are of the form
Unsaturated fatty acids are of similar form, except that one or more alkene functional groups exist along the chain, substituting singly-bondeded
Essential fatty acids or polyunsaturated fatty acids are fatty acids that are required in the human diet. This means they cannot be synthesized by the body and must be obtained from food. We can easily make saturated fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids that have one double bond (monounsaturated fatty acids), but we do not have the proper enzymes to synthesis unsaturated fatty acids that have more than one double bond (polyunsaturated fatty acids).
These essential fatty acids are very important to our immune system and to help us regulate our blood pressure, for they are used to make essential compounds, such as prostaglandins.
Fatty acids not bound or attached to other molecules, like triglycerides, cholesterol and phospholipid.
The uncombined fatty acid or Free Fatty Acids may come from the breakdown of a triglyceride into its components (fatty acids and glycerol). Saturated
O
R-COH , that is, R-COOH
where R = CH3-(CH2)n
Saturated are:
Unsaturated
-CH2-CH2-
part of the chain with doubly-bonded -CH=CH-
portions (this is, with carbons attached with a double bond to another carbon). In most of these, each double bond has 3n carbon atoms after it, for some n, and are all cis bonds; they are called the omega-3 double bond, omega-6, omega-9, and so on.
Stearic and oleic acid are both 18 C fatty acids. They differ only in that stearic acid is saturated with H, while oleic acid is an unsaturated fatty acid (with two less H than the anterior). 
Free Fatty Acids
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fatty acid."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
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| FAAH | English | Fatty acid amine hydrolase | N/A |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Biological laboratory technician Elizabeth Denvir extracts samples for total lipid and fatty acid composition. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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Health | Butyrate, a simple fatty acid that is widely used as a food additive, is also being investigated as an agent that may increase fetal hemoglobin production. (references) | |
There are no other significant changes in the amino acid, fatty acid, or vitamin content of food. In fact, the changes induced by irradiation are so minimal that it is not easy to determine whether or not a food has been irradiated. (references) | ||
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Expressions using "fatty acid": essential fatty acid ♦ fatty acid amine hydrolase ♦ Fatty Acid Desaturases ♦ monounsaturated fatty acid ♦ omega-3 fatty acid ♦ polyunsaturated fatty acid ♦ saturated fatty acid ♦ tall oil fatty acid ♦ trans fatty acid ♦ unsaturated fatty acid. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "fatty acid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | acid yndyror. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حامض دهني. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fedtsyre til industriel brug, fedtsyre, E570, carboxylsyre (acid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vetzuur, industrieel vetzuur, E570, carbonzuur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rasvahappo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | acide gras. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fettsäure. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λιπαρό οξύ (E570). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zsírsav. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | acido grasso (E570). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 脂肪酸 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しぼうさ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | attyfay aciday gorducho (fubsy, punchy, roly poly, squab, squabby), ácido gordo industrial. (various references) жирная кислота. (various references) masne kiseline. (various references) ácido graso (E570). (various references) fettsyra. (various references) yağ asidi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-f-i-t-t-y" | |
-4 letters: acidy, adyta, attic, catty, dicta, dicty, ditty, facia, fatty, tacit, tafia. | |
-5 letters: acid, acta, adit, cadi, caid, city, daft, data, dita, fact, fiat, tact, tidy. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 74 74 79 41 63 69 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01110100 01110100 01111001 00100000 01000001 01100011 01101001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a t t y   A c i d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0074 0074 0079 0041 0063 0069 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4067868691235697570 |
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