Wondering how to use Glycerol in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as glycerin or glycerine.
Glycerol in a sentence
Glycerol meaning
- 1,2,3-trihydroxy-propane or propan-1,2,3-triol; a trihydric alcohol
- A syrupy sweet liquid obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of soap from animal or vegetable oils and fats; it is used as an antifreeze, a plasticizer, and a food sweetener and in the manufacture of dynamite, cosmetics etc.
Using Glycerol
- The main meaning on this page is: 1,2,3-trihydroxy-propane or propan-1,2,3-triol; a trihydric alcohol | A syrupy sweet liquid obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of soap from animal or vegetable oils and fats; it is used as an antifreeze, a plasticizer, and a food sweetener and in the manufacture of dynamite, cosmetics etc.
- Useful related words include: glycerin, glycerine, alcohol.
- In the example corpus, glycerol often appears in combinations such as: the glycerol, and glycerol, of glycerol.
Context around Glycerol
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Glycerol
- In this selection, "glycerol" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, contain, ingredients, glucose, must, intoxication and groups stand out and add context to how "glycerol" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include acids and glycerol when insulin and amount of glycerol or e422. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "glycerol" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with glycerol
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Manufacturing Nitroglycerin can be produced by acid catalyzed nitration of glycerol (glycerine). (12 words)
Lipids are usually made from one molecule of glycerol combined with other molecules. (13 words)
Citrobacter species absorb uranyl ions when given glycerol phosphate (or other similar organic phosphates). (14 words)
In this reaction, the triglyceride fats first hydrolyze into free fatty acids, and then these combine with the alkali to form crude soap: an amalgam of various soap salts, excess fat or alkali, water, and liberated glycerol (glycerin). (38 words)
Adam Hardgrave, Head of Additives at the Food Standards Agency, emphasised: "While the symptoms of glycerol intoxication are usually mild, it is important that parents are aware of the risks particularly at high levels of consumption. (36 words)
Fats stored in adipose tissue are released from the fat cells into the blood as free fatty acids and glycerol when insulin levels are low and glucagon and epinephrine levels in the blood are high. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
FFA and glycerol must be activated prior to the synthesis of TGs into Acyl-CoA and glycerol-3-phosphate respectively.
The Food Standards Agency warns retailers to use the minimum amount of glycerol, or E422, as possible.
Adam Hardgrave, Head of Additives at the Food Standards Agency, emphasised: "While the symptoms of glycerol intoxication are usually mild, it is important that parents are aware of the risks particularly at high levels of consumption.
The FSA said work was taking place with the trade to discuss how to improve consumer information on which slush ice products contain glycerol.
The reason for this is that the glycerol, which unlike water only evaporates at very high temperatures, slowly but steadily migrated from the sprayed side of the paper to the other side.
Fortunately, the other ingredients – glycerol, to soften the liquid’s effect on hands, water, colourant and perfume — are all still available at the university.
On the basis of Source, the market is bifurcated into: Glucose, Glycerol and Raw Sugar.
Plump up fine or thin strands with this non-greasy balm that uses Glycerol to enhance hair fibers to add fullness to any style.
Cardiolipins are a subclass of glycerophospholipids containing four acyl chains and three glycerol groups that are particularly abundant in the inner mitochondrial membrane.
Citrobacter species absorb uranyl ions when given glycerol phosphate (or other similar organic phosphates).
During the process, glycerol is formed, and the fatty acids react with the base, converting them to salts.
Fat molecules are composed of fatty acid chains attached to a glycerol backbone, usually in threes.
Fats stored in adipose tissue are released from the fat cells into the blood as free fatty acids and glycerol when insulin levels are low and glucagon and epinephrine levels in the blood are high.
Fatty acids, monoglycerides (one glycerol, one fatty acid), and some diglycerides are absorbed by the duodenum, once the triglycerides have been broken down.
Glycerol itself can be converted to glucose by the liver and so become a source of energy.
In the liver the glycerol can be converted into glucose via dihydroxyacetone phosphate and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate by way of gluconeogenesis.
In this reaction, the triglyceride fats first hydrolyze into free fatty acids, and then these combine with the alkali to form crude soap: an amalgam of various soap salts, excess fat or alkali, water, and liberated glycerol (glycerin).
Lipids are usually made from one molecule of glycerol combined with other molecules.
Manufacturing Nitroglycerin can be produced by acid catalyzed nitration of glycerol (glycerine).
Note the three fatty acid chains attached to the central glycerol portion of the molecule.
Common combinations with glycerol
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the glycerol 7×
- and glycerol 6×
- of glycerol 4×
- glycerol to 3×
- glycerol phosphate 2×
- glycerol or 2×
- contain glycerol 2×
- glycerol is 2×
- to glycerol 2×