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  • noun organic chemistry A particular pentacyclic triterpene

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  • These products are: two saturated chains aliphatic hydrocarbons (C33H68 and C35H72), saccharose, two pentacyclic triterpenes of the ursane group (alpha-amyrine, urs-12-ene-3-one), a new polymethoxy flavonoid

    Chapter 12 1991

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