What makes a fatty acid an acid?
a. It does not dissolve in water...

Question

What makes a fatty acid an acid?
a. It does not dissolve in water.
b. It is capable of bonding with other molecules to form a fat.
c. It has a carboxyl group that can donate an H+ to a solution.
d. It contains only two oxygen atoms.

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone and welcome to today's video Today, we have that blank fatty assets have single carbon carbon bonds in the hydrocarbon backbones. Whereas blank fatty assets have double carbon carbon bonds. Again in their hydrocarbon backbones. Let's visualize the two main types of descriptions for these hydrocarbon backbones and here we have them. So what does this term saturated and unsaturated? Mean when it comes to hydrocarbon backbones saturated with what well saturated and unsaturated means that they're either saturated or unsaturated with hydrogen atoms. So a backbone that has many hydrogen atoms is going to be called saturated and a backbone that has a few hydrogen atoms is going to be called unsaturated because it is not saturated with hydrogen atoms. So let's visualize these two backbones here and identify which ones which, Well here we have a lot of hydrogen atoms. So this is going to be your saturated backbone and as we can see it is composed of carbon carbon, single bonds only because of this. This is what we're going to input here in the first one, saturated fatty acids have single carbon carbon bonds in the hydrocarbon back bonds. Now let's look at our second option here we have a few hydrogen atoms only. So we have a lot less and so this is going to be or unsaturated as we can see these unsaturated fatty acids has these double bonds that prevents the presence of more hydrogen atoms because of this. This is what we're going to put here in the second, blank unsaturated fatty acids have have double carbon carbon bonds. So looking at our answer choices, the answer choice that is correctly going to represent what we have been able to find is answer choice, saturated and unsaturated. That is the end of the video, and I really hope this helped you.

What makes a fatty acid an acid? a. It does not dissolve in water. b. It is capable of bonding with other molecules to form a fat. c. It has a carboxyl group that can donate an H+ to a solution. d. It contains only two oxygen atoms.

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