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What are pentoses?

What are pentoses? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of pentose
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Its acetate is used in the Aniline acetate test for carbohydrates, identifying pentoses by conversion to furfural.
Depending on number of carbons, monosaccharides are called trioses, tetroses, pentoses, and hexoses etc.
Pentoses and tetroses are synthesized from 5-and 4-carbon backbone moieties formed by removing carbon from the 6-carbon arene moiety.
These were the hexose constituents of the hydrolysed complex, the pentoses surviving intact.

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