biose Chem.
(ˈbaɪəʊs)
[f. bi-2 + -ose2.]
(See quots.)
| 1892 E. F. Smith tr. Richter's Org. Chem. (ed. 2) 507 Only the disaccharides of the hexoses, C6H12O6, are known. They consist of two molecules of the glucoses or monoses..and therefore are called bioses. 1903 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. LXXXIV. i. 713 By the action of alcoholic hydrogen chloride on bioses, hydrolysis occurred and glucosides of the monoses were formed. 1916 A. P. Mathews Physiol. Chem. 18 The monosaccharides are in their turn classified by the number of carbon atoms, or more properly by the aldehyde, ketone and alcohol groups they contain into bioses, trioses, tetroses, pentoses, hexoses, heptoses, octoses, nonoses, etc. |