dextroglucose
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dextro- + glucose (“right sugar”).
Noun
[edit]dextroglucose (usually uncountable, plural dextroglucoses)
Usage notes
[edit]Levoglucose is not the antonym L-glucose form: despite its name, it is in fact D-fructose, due to the origins of stereochemistry and sugar research.
See also
[edit]- levoglucose (levulose, D-fructose form of fructose) (left sugar)