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What is saponification?

When fatty acids like oil are heated with aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide, form soaps which are the sodium or potassium salts of fatty acid containing long hydrocarbon chain from C12 to C18. This process is called saponification reaction.



In the above reaction, soaps get separated by adding sodium chloride.


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