arabinose
/uh-rab-uh-nohs, ar-uh-buh-/US // əˈræb əˌnoʊs, ˈær ə bə- //UK // (əˈræbɪˌnəʊz, -ˌnəʊs) //
阿拉伯糖,阿拉糖,阿拉宾糖,阿糖
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Chemistry.
- : a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C5H10O5, obtained from plant gums or made synthetically from glucose, used chiefly as a culture medium in bacteriology.
Examples
The wound gums, for example, yield arabinose, and the wood gums yield xylose.
When hydrolyzed, they yield arabinose and a hexose; the latter is sometimes galactose and sometimes mannose.
It is, therefore, similar to amygdalin, except that one glucose molecule is replaced by arabinose.
This was directly established for glucose, lævulose, galactose, and arabinose .
On hydrolysis, it yields glucose, arabinose, and d-mandelo nitrile.
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