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The melting points of unsaturated fats are lower. Give reason.

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  • The long carbon chains of unsaturated fatty acids contain one or more C=C double bonds which produces one or more ‘kinks’ in the chain. This prevent the molecules from packing closely together.
  • Also, the van der Waals forces between the unsaturated chains are weak.

Hence, the melting points of unsaturated fats are lower.



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