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Prolonged boiling of animal fat with lye...

Prolonged boiling of animal fat with lye is called

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saponification

B

stain removal

C

ecology

D

conjugation

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Lye soap was produced in earlier days by boiling animal fat with lye. This process of forming the salt of fatty acids by treating at fat with alkali is called saponification.
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