In chemistry, particularly in biochemistry, a fatty acid is a carboxylic acid with a long aliphatic tail (chain), which is either saturated or unsaturated. Most naturally occurring fatty acids have a chain of an even number of carbon atoms, from 12 to 28.hus, saturated fatty acids are saturated with hydrogen (since double bonds reduce the number of hydrogens on each carbon). Because saturated fatty acids have only single bonds, each carbon atom within the chain has 2 hydrogen atoms (except for the omega carbon at the end that has 3 hydrogens).
The following is a list of the top ten largest lakes by surface area in the United States. Their locations have also been included for reference. 1) Lake Superior. Surface Area: 31,700 square miles (82,103 sq km) Location: Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ontario, Canada.
Lake Michigan has a surface area of 22,404 sq.mi (58,026 km 2); (13,237 square miles, 34,284 km 2 lying in Michigan state, 7,358 square miles, 19,056 km 2 in Wisconsin, 234 square miles, 606 km 2 in Indiana, & 1,576 square miles, 4,079 km 2 in Illinois) making it the largest lake entirely within one country by surface area (Lake Baikal, in Russia, is larger by water volume), and the fifth-largest lake in the world.