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dihydroxyacetone

dihydroxyacetone

See also: dihydroxyacétone

English

Noun

dihydroxyacetone (countable and uncountable, plural dihydroxyacetones)

  1. (organic chemistry) The compound CO(CH2OH)2 that has a number of industrial uses
  2. (biochemistry) The only ketotriose

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