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English
Etymology
From levo- + glucose (left-rotating sugar) (left sugar).
Noun
levoglucose (uncountable)
- (archaic) levulose (D-fructose), the left-rotating form of fructose
Usage notes
This is not L-glucose form of glucose despite being named that way, it is the D-fructose form of fructose, due to the origins of stereochemistry and sugar research.
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