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noun
A faintly sweet alcohol C6H14O6 that occurs in some fruits, is made synthetically, and is used especially as a humectant and softener and in making ascorbic acid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From earlier sorbite (from sorb + -ite) + -ol. By surface analysis, sorb + -itol.
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
