sorbitol
English
Etymology
From Latin sorbus (“service tree”) + -itol.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sor‧bi‧tol
Noun
sorbitol (countable and uncountable, plural sorbitols)
- (organic chemistry) A sugar alcohol (2R,3S,4S,5S)-hexane-1,2,3,4,5,6-hexol used as an artificial sweetener
Synonyms
- E420 when used as a sweetener
Translations
sugar alcohol
Anagrams
French
Noun
sorbitol m (plural sorbitols)
Further reading
- “sorbitol”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Noun
sorbitol m (plural sorbitoles)
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