지방 ≫ 지방의 합성 ≫ Ethylene

폴리에틸렌 : 왁스 Wax

지방의 합성
- 지방산의 합성 , 축적, 지방대사 : 분해
- 에틸렌 : 식물호르몬
- 지방산
- 왁스 Wax
- 폴리에틸렌
- 이소프레노이드 합성
- 셀룰로오스를 분해하기 힘든 이유

Animal waxes

Beeswax - produced by honey bees
Chinese wax - produced by the scale insect Ceroplastes ceriferus
Lanolin (wool wax) - from the sebaceous glands of sheep
Shellac wax - from the lac insect Kerria lacca
Spermaceti - from the head cavities and blubber of the sperm whale

Vegetable waxes

Bayberry wax - from the surface wax of the fruits of the bayberry shrub, Myrica faya
Candelilla wax - from the Mexican shrubs Euphorbia cerifera and Euphorbia antisyphilitica
Carnauba wax - from the leaves of the Carnauba palm, Copernicia cerifera
Castor wax - catalytically hydrogenated castor oil
Esparto wax - a byproduct of making paper from esparto grass, (Macrochloa tenacissima)
Japan wax - a vegetable triglyceride (not a true wax), from the berries of Rhus and Toxicodendron species
Ouricury wax - from the Brazilian feather palm, Syagrus coronata.
Rice bran wax - obtained from rice bran (Oryza sativa)
Soy wax - from soybean oil
Tallow Tree wax - from the seeds of the tallow tree Triadica sebifera.

Mineral waxes

Ceresin waxes
Montan wax - extracted from lignite and brown coal
Ozocerite - found in lignite beds
Peat waxes
Petroleum waxes[edit]
Paraffin wax - made of long-chain alkane hydrocarbons
Microcrystalline wax - with very fine crystalline structure