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levoglucose

[lee-vuh-gloo-kohs]

noun Chemistry.

See under glucose (def. 1).

Origin:
levo- + glucose

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Levoglucose is always a great word to know.

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the process or result of a chemical reaction to oxygen, or the deposit that forms on the surface of a metal as it oxidizes

selecting for combination or action; tending to combine with certain substances in preference to others, such as elective attraction

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noun Biochemistry.

a sugar, C₆H₁₂O₆, having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or d-glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or l-glucose) not naturally occurring.

Also called starch syrup. a syrup containing dextrose, maltose, and dextrine, obtained by the incomplete hydrolysis of starch.