Abstract
The quantitative composition of fatty acids of pacific beaked whale blubber oil was determined. The results and the composition calculated are shown in from Table 1 to Table 6. The content of the saturated acids was 10.14% and the unsaturated acids 89.86%. The saturated fatty acids were mainly constituted of palmitic, myristic and stearic acids. The unsaturated fatty acids were constituted of monoethenoid acids of C20, C18, C23, C16, C14, and a little quantity of C20, C22, acids, which were more unsaturated than monoethenoid. The quantity of C20 and C22 acids were comparatively large. This blubber oil showed a considerably different fatty acid composition from that of the head and jaw oil1).
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