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What is a lipid?

What is a lipid? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (organic chemistry) any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water, and account for most of the fat present in the human body. They are, however, soluble in nonpolar organic solvents
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After the probe was added to the lipid it was equilibrated for I h above the phase transition temperature.
When model membrane systems are prepared in the form of lipid dispersions, techniques other than MAS are often used.
Optical microscopy was used to detect the presence of cholesterol crystals in the lipid dispersions.
The lipid hydroperoxide thus formed will decompose into alkoxy radicals, aldehydes, alkenes, epoxides and alcohols.
Substances that are confined to the lipid matrix will move along the plane of the bilayer.
We would therefore postulate that individual lipid molecules in fusion intermediates would have canonical structure but increased dynamic motion.

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