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Be sure to answer all parts. A wax found in head of a sperm whale is cetyl palmitate. What fatty acid and what alcohol are us
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Cetyl palmitate is an ester which is formed by hexadecanol alcohol and hexadecanoic acid.

So fatty acid is hexadecanoic acid

Alcohol is hexadecanol.

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