In article >, Rod Speed wrote in part:
>Don Klipstein > wrote

>>> You've mangled that too. Both the trans and cis forms are liquid at
>>>room temp.
>
>> You make that claim - can you cite this
>> being true of actual fats in common usage?
>
>YOU made the original claim.
>
>YOU get to do that citing.
>
>THATS how it works.

Cis-octadecenoic acid melting point: 16 degrees C
Trans-octadecenoic acid melting point: 44 degrees C

http://books.google.com/books?id=OTy...28&dq=%22trans
octadecenoic%22+acid+%22melting+point%22&source=we b&ots=QydaH-YRdZ&sig=
agQkRFqc_t77zVPDfBQXWEDUtRM

(split into 3 lines)

- Don Klipstein )