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Hexadecanoic acid Moderate

Hexadecanoic acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a saturated fatty acid that is the major fat in meat and dairy products

2

Any aliphatic carboxylic acid that has sixteen carbon atoms, but especially palmitic acid

See Also
palmitic acid hexadecanoyl hexadecanoic aliphatic hexadecanoate carboxylic acid
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
saturated fatty acid
Rhyming Words
cid acid scid picid arcid alcid mucid lucid ficid lycid coccid esocid odacid marcid muscid raucid chacid viscid caecid diacid
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