The plural form of citral; multiple instances or types of the lemony-smelling compound.
Simple plural of citral, formed by adding -s. Used in scientific and commercial contexts when discussing multiple samples or isomers of the compound.
Though 'citrals' is technically plural, chemists found that citral actually exists as two different molecular mirror-images called stereoisomers—geranial and neral—so 'citrals' can mean both varieties found in nature.
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