glycerol
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- n a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils
- Since the active summer larvae do not contain glycerol, he guessed that the larvae possessed a mechanism that reacted to cold by producing glycerol to keep their tissues from .
- An antifreeze called glycerol is added to prevent destruction of the red cells.
- Claus and Nagy got small samples of five chondrites, crushed them in water or glycerol on glass slides and examined them under the microscope.