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Lipid Nomenclature

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THE following views, although divergent in some particulars from those of Fisher1, may be useful for consideration when the terminology of fatty substances is revised by an international commission, and in lipid chemistry generally.

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HUTT, H. Lipid Nomenclature. Nature 175, 303–304 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/175303a0

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