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- noun biochemistry A
sugar alcohol derived from thepentose arabinose
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There are other polyols that are found in elevated concentrations during the winter, but not in the molar quantities of an antifreeze solute (the combined effect, however, is to further reduce the freezing point of the solution); these include inositol, fucitol, arabitol, zylitol, rhamnitol, and ribitol.
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
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Reiner AM (1983) Genotypic exclusion: a novel relationship between the ribitol-arabitol and galactitol genes of E. coli.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Zhemin Zhou et al. 2010
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