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org16 Fatty acids building units of fats
* Left: In an earlier experiment you have molten small quantities of spreads like butter, Beceldietary magarine
  and  "Du darfst". After slidification in syringes:
* Observations and explanations: 100 g of these foods contain 20 to 70 g of water.
The lighter fat (as long as it is liquid it is called "fatty oil") floats on the water. The water in "Du darfst" keeps solid as it contains gelatine.
midle: The model of this fat (C35H64O6) was assembled by connecting 41 black, >64 white and 6 read beads.
Right: Each fat molecule reacts with  3 water molecules during  digestion, releasing 4 smaller molecules:
1 molecule of glycerol and 3 molecules of fatty acids.
* Make your models of a glycerol molecule and of three molecules of fatty acids by  welding 35 black beads, 9 red beads and the necessary number of white beads.
* Finally connect these 4 building units to obtain 1 molecule of a fat and 3 water molecules.
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