Ambi-dextrose!

all 3 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 13 points 1 week ago

If you see a bag of sugar hitchhiking, you should give a saccharide.

  • source
  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 week ago

    Sorry, I couldn't post earlier because of whatever was going on with .world.

  • source
  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Dextrose is specifically right-handed, which is why it starts like dexter, the Latin word for right (and the rest is just ose, which means sugar, so the whole thing just means right-handed sugar). It got its name because when it was first identified as its own molecule, it was because it polarised light to the right, whereas l-sucrose, which had already been identified, polarised it to the left. Glucose is also possible as left-handed l-glucose, although it doesn't occur naturally in earth life.

  • source