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Soap is a mixture of sodium or potassium salts of

  1. monocarboxylic acids

  2. dicarboxylic acids

  3. tricarboxylic acids

  4. glyrecols

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Explanation

Soaps are sodium or potassium salts of long-chain monocarboxylic acids, commonly known as fatty acids. These carboxylic acids contain a single carboxyl group attached to a long hydrocarbon chain.