Fats

Examples

• In practice, the wood ashes were boiled in water, which was then strained off, and the resulting filtrate, or lye, was mixed with the fats for soap making. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Broadly speaking, plants furnish the carbohydrates, that is, starch and sugar; animals furnish the fats and proteids. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The best-known fats are butter, lard, olive oil, and the fats of meats, cheese, and chocolate. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Most fats contain a substance of an acid nature, and are decomposed by the action of bases such as caustic soda and caustic potash. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Va pour les beaux fats et les jolis fripons! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• This class of foods contains carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, and in addition, two substances not found in carbohydrates or fats--namely, sulphur and nitrogen. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Here great closed tanks cook the fats, under high steam pressure, and make them into snow-white lard. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When we test fats for fuel values by means of a calorimeter (Fig. 26), we find that they yield twice as much heat as the carbohydrates, but that they burn out more quickly. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The fats which go to waste in our garbage could be made a source of income, not only to the housewife, but to the city. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Most of our fats, like lard and butter, are of animal origin; some of them, however, like olive oil, peanut butter, and coconut oil, are of plant origin. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• To some extent the same may be said of the soluble fats which give to the butter its variable though characteristic flavor. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• When a farmer had killed a hog, he would render out certain of the fats in an iron caldron. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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