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  • noun Plural form of heptose.

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  • Reciprocal syntheses between different hexoses by isomerization and then between pentoses, hexoses, and heptoses by reaction of degradation and synthesis proved the value of the systematics he had established.

    Emil Fischer - Biography 1966

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