Summary
In order to determine the degree of unsaturation of fats and to study the kinetics of their hydrogenation, it is proposed to use instead of the iodine number an index which is called the unsaturation number and shows the total number of double bonds in 100 molecules of fatty acids.
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Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 671–675, November–December, 1970.
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Glushenkova, A.I., Markman, A.L. The iodine number and the unsaturation number of fats. Chem Nat Compd 6, 685–688 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00565331
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