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二糖 (にとう) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

二に糖とう

Meanings

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noun

disaccharide

chemistry

Technical term in chemistry for a sugar composed of two monosaccharides.

スクロースは代だい表ひょう的てきな二に糖とうの一ひとつです。
Sucrose is one of the typical disaccharides.

Kanji

二two, two radical (no. 7)
糖sugar

Similar words

単たん糖とう
単糖 (monosaccharide) is a single sugar unit, while 二糖 is composed of two monosaccharides.
多た糖とう
多糖 (polysaccharide) consists of many monosaccharide units, unlike 二糖 which has exactly two.

Etymology

Compound of 二 (two) and 糖 (sugar), directly describing a sugar made of two monosaccharide units.