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A research team co-led by Ed Cahoon, biochemist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has identified two major fatty acids in vegetable oil for what may be the first time in decades. Those fatty acids appear to give the oil -- produced by the seeds of a plant named the Chinese violet cress -- an edge over castor oil in lubrication performance.
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Craig Chandler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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