An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
TRIOSE
triose
(noun) any monosaccharide sugar containing three atoms of carbon per molecule
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
triose (plural trioses)
(carbohydrate) A sugar or saccharide containing three carbon atoms. Trioses are the smallest monosaccharides. Dihydroxyacetone and L-/D-glyceraldehyde are the only trioses.
Hypernyms
• monosaccharide
Hyponyms
• ketotriose
dihydroxyacetone
• aldotriose
glyceraldehyde
Anagrams
• Sortie, Storie, Tories, restio, sortie, storie, tiroes, tories, Ĺ“stri
Source: Wiktionary
Tri"ose, n. [Tri- + -ose.] (Chem.) (a) A sugar derived from a trihydric alcohol. (b) A trisaccharide.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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