fatty acid

English Wikipedia has an article on:

fatty acid

Wikipedia

fatty acid (plural fatty acids)

1. (organic chemistry, biochemistry) 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.

1. 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.

• See also Thesaurus:fatty acid

• “fatty acid”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.