A chemical compound, a type of sugar alcohol found in plants of the Adonis genus.
From Adonis (the plant genus) combined with -ol, the standard chemistry suffix for alcohols. The compound was isolated and named as botanists chemically analyzed Adonis plant species.
Adonitol is one of several sugar alcohols that occur in nature—and because it was found in Adonis plants, chemists just named it after the mythological god, adding another chemical to our ancient mythology-inspired periodic table!
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