anhydroglucose

Questions

What does anhydroglucose mean?

The moiety, in a polysaccharide such as cellulose, consisting of a glucose molecule that has lost the elements of water (actually a -H and an -OH group)

Where does anhydroglucose come from?

From anhydro- + glucose.

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