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It's a fat (lipid). It has an alcohol functional group on it, but it's not technically an alcohol.
by vondur 7y ago
It's a fat (lipid). It has an alcohol functional group on it, but it's not technically an alcohol.
- perl4ever 7y agoUnderstand, I'm just copying and pasting from Wikipedia here, but: "Although the term "lipid" is sometimes used as a synonym for fats, fats are a subgroup of lipids called triglycerides" It looks like sometimes people refer to triglycerides and cholesterol together as "fat", and other times say triglycerides in particular are "fat".