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The paper clips in lorenzo's oil are used to represent the long chain fatty acids (the c-26's i believe). the other clips are used to show the bad acids in lorenzos blood.Augusto tries to use them to figure out why, when one increases, the other decreases. he finds out that they are from the same enzyme, so the enzyme will create the same amount either way, but the increase of one will decrease the other.

i.e.

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is the same amt of dashes as

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both are 15 total, but the numbers in each chain can be manipulated.

hope i helped.

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