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laevulose

laevulose is the alternative spelling of levulose.

Meaning of levulose

Noun

levulose (countable and uncountable, plural levuloses)

  1. D-fructose, the left-rotating stereoisomer of fructose.
    • The saccharides include such substances as dextrose and levulose, which are typical examples of the two classes into which these bodies are divisible, viz. the Aldoses and Ketoses.1895, Richard Lloyd Whiteley, chapter XXXV, in Organic Chemistry: The Fatty Compounds, London; New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 263

Forms of laevulose

plurallaevuloses

Questions about laevulose

What is laevulose the alternative spelling of?
Laevulose is the alternative spelling of levulose.

Words near laevulose in the dictionary

  1. laevulin
  2. laevulinate
  3. laevulinates
  4. laevulinic acid
  5. laevulins
  6. laevulose
  7. laevuloses
  8. Lafaille
  9. lafanga
  10. lafangas
  11. Lafarge

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