mannitol

English

Etymology

mannose +‎ -itol

Noun

mannitol (countable and uncountable, plural mannitols)

(organic chemistry) a polyhydroxy alcohol, an isomer of sorbitol, used as an artificial sweetener

Synonyms

E421 when used as a sweetener

Translations

alcohol

Catalan: mannitol (ca) m
Czech: manitol m
Finnish: mannitoli (fi)
Galician: manitol (gl) m

Italian: mannitolo (it) m
Spanish: manitol m
Welsh: manitol m

See also

mannitol on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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