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Straight-chain paraffins

Also called n-paraffins

Saturated hydrocarbon molecules whose carbon atoms form a single unbranched line. Hydrotreated fats yield mostly chains of 15 to 18 carbons, which burn cleanly but turn waxy in the cold.

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