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THE technique of gas chromatography has shown that naturally occurring fats and waxes contain saturated and unsaturated fatty acids with both even and odd numbers of carbon atoms. So far, however, the acids with odd numbers of carbon atoms have been reported to occur in only relatively small amounts in natural materials.
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McLAREN, D., READ, W. An Unusual Major Fatty Acid Component in Human Depot Fat. Nature 192, 265 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/192265a0
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