Carbohydrate
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carbohydrate-187-1166714
title:
Carbohydrate
text:
A carbohydrate is a biomolecule consisting of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) atoms, usually with a hydrogen–oxygen atom ratio of 2:1 and thus with the empirical formula Cm(H2O)n, which does not mean the H has covalent bonds with O. However, not all carbohydrates conform to this precise stoichiometric definition, nor are all chemicals that do conform to this definition automatically classified as carbohydrates. The term is most common in biochemistry, where it is a synonym of saccharide,
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description:
Organic compound that consists only of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbohydrate
date created:
2001-09-15T17:50:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T14:53:18Z
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