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Describe the structural differences and similarities between waxes, fats and oils.

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Oil is simply fat with unsaturated fatty acid chains. and is found in liquid form at room temperature. Waxes are very much like fats oil, except that they are malleable in normal condition, and have only single long-chain fatty acid, attached to a long-chain alcohol group.

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