xylose
/zahy-lohs/US // ˈzaɪ loʊs //UK // (ˈzaɪləʊz, -ləʊs) //
木糖,木糖醇,木质糖,半乳糖
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n.名词 noun
- 1
Chemistry.
- : a colorless, crystalline pentose sugar, C5H10O5, derived from xylan, straw, corncobs, etc., by treating with heated dilute sulfuric acid, and dehydrating to furfural if stronger acid is used.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as insugar
Examples
The wound gums, for example, yield arabinose, and the wood gums yield xylose.
The product of hydrolysis appears, therefore, to be xylose or a closely related derivative.
All attempts to obtain a crystallisation of xylose from the solution neutralised (BaCO3), filtered, and evaporated, failed.
They have found it possible to work up the corn cobs into glucose and xylose by heating with acid.
But glucose can be more cheaply obtained from other starchy or woody materials and they cannot find a market for the xylose.
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