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reducing sugars

reducing sugars is the plural of reducing sugar.

Meaning of reducing sugar

Noun

reducing sugar (plural reducing sugars)

  1. Any sugar that has a potential aldehyde or ketone functional group and thus reacts as a reducing agent.

Questions about reducing sugars

What is reducing sugars the plural of?
Reducing sugars is the plural of reducing sugar.

Words near reducing sugars in the dictionary

  1. reducing flames
  2. reducing scale
  3. reducing scales
  4. reducing someone to tears
  5. reducing sugar
  6. reducing sugars
  7. reduct
  8. reductant
  9. reductants
  10. reductase
  11. reductases

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