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Write a summary statement for unsaturated fats

including whether they are solids or liquids at
room temperature and whether they have all
single carbon-to-carbon bonds or at least one
double carbon-to-carbon bond

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Unsaturated fats are liquids at room temperature and have at least one double carbon-to-carbon bond.

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Unsaturated fats are fats which have one or more
double bonds in their fatty acid chains. The
number of these double bonds determine the
degree of unsaturation of the fatty acid, the higher
the number of double bond, the higher the
degree of unsaturation of the fat. Unsaturated fats
are liquids at room temperature.
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