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The 20 Carbon Chain
The 20 carbon chain that we talked about a couple weeks ago was not listed anywhere in my biochem textbook. So I went to a pub chem and found that it's one of those more waxy solid ones like we talked about in the episode. It's used in cosmetics lubricants, plasticizers, and can also be sold as feeds for cracking for gasoline. And they also may be a component of diesel exhaust particles as well.
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