The chemical group or radical derived from glycerol by removing hydrogen atoms, used to form various compounds.
Glycerol + -yl (suffix denoting a chemical radical or univalent group). Established in chemistry around the 1860s as scientists developed systematic naming for organic radicals.
Glyceryl is the building block of all fats and oils in your body—when you see 'glyceryl' on a food label, you're looking at products made by attaching fatty acids to this simple three-carbon scaffold.
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