<unk>  is a process that involves the conversion of fat, oil, or lipid, into soap and alcohol by the action of aqueous alkali (e.g. NaOH). Soaps are salts of fatty acids, which in turn are carboxylic acids with long carbon chains. A typical soap is sodium oleate.
Saponification
Sterilization 
Mutagen
Detoxification
Bioaccumulation
Chelation
Fragmentation 
Hydrolysis