Actually cholesterol - is alcohol Bashny.Net

Cholesterol is always at the hearing. Everyone knows that it is in large quantities found in eggs, mayonnaise, margarine and similar products. But what really cholesterol - is not fat, and alcohol, little is known.

Cholesterol was opened in 1769, the year. Since it has the properties of fat, the fat was considered, but in the 19th century, Marcellin Berthelot demonstrated that cholesterol belongs to the class of alcohols. After that cholesterol was renamed cholesterol, however, Russian and some other languages ​​the name remained.

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