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Saturated vs Monosaturated - What's the difference?

saturated | monosaturated |

As adjectives the difference between saturated and monosaturated

is that saturated is full; unable to hold or contain any more while monosaturated is having one saturated fatty acid.

As a verb saturated

is past tense of saturate.

saturated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (saturate)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
  • (comparable) Soaked or drenched with moisture.
  • (not comparable, chemistry, of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
  • (chemistry) Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.

    • Related terms

    * saturate * saturity * unsaturated * polyunsaturated

    monosaturated

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (organic chemistry, of a glyceride) Having one saturated fatty acid

    • Related terms

    *disaturated *trisaturated