Glycerin

Glycerin is a sugar alcohol, the simplest trivalent alcohol. The name glycerol was introduced because it has the correct ending -ol for an alcohol (the ending -in stands for alkine or amine).

Glycerol plays a central role as an intermediate product in various metabolic processes. It is used as a food additive under the symbol E 422.

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