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glycerol

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glycerol

Summary

glycerol is a type of chemical entity[1]. glycerol ranks in the top 1% of type_of_chemical_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (156 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • glycerol is credited with the discovery of Carl Wilhelm Scheele[3].
  • glycerol's instance of is recorded as type of chemical entity[4].
  • glycerol's canonical SMILES is recorded as C(C(CO)O)O[5].
  • glycerol's chemical formula is recorded as C₃H₈O₃[6].
  • glycerol is a type of triol[7].
  • glycerol is a type of alditol[8].
  • glycerol is a type of primary alcohol[9].
  • glycerol is a type of secondary alcohol[10].
  • glycerol is a type of aliphatic alcohol[11].
  • glycerol is part of glycerol metabolic process[12].
  • glycerol is part of glycerol biosynthetic process[13].
  • glycerol is part of glycerol catabolic process[14].
  • glycerol is part of glyceroneogenesis[15].
  • glycerol is part of glycerol to glycerone phosphate metabolic process[16].
  • glycerol is part of glycolytic process from glycerol[17].
  • glycerol is part of glycerol transmembrane transporter activity[18].
  • glycerol is part of glycerol channel activity[19].
  • glycerol is part of glycerol transport[20].
  • glycerol is part of glycerol-phosphate:inorganic phosphate antiporter activity[21].
  • glycerol is part of glycerol-1-phosphatase activity[22].
  • glycerol is part of glycerol kinase activity[23].
  • glycerol is part of cardiolipin synthase activity[24].
  • glycerol is part of glycerol dehydrogenase [NAD+] activity[25].
  • glycerol is part of glycerol dehydratase activity[26].
  • glycerol is part of glycerol-3-phosphate-glucose phosphotransferase activity[27].

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Works and Contributions

glycerol is credited with the discovery of Carl Wilhelm Scheele[3].

Why It Matters

glycerol ranks in the top 1% of type_of_chemical_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (156 views/month).[2] glycerol has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] glycerol is known by 76 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Carl Wilhelm Scheele Saint-Jean-sur-Veyle

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Zvg number → 11980
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P679]]: 11980, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P679]]"
  2. 10d ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Zvg number → 11980
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P679]]: 011980, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/275042|batch #275042]]"
  3. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2HpLae, 2Moj9b
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 18w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Found in taxon → Homo sapiens, Pycnandra acuminata, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii +43
    Discoverer or inventor → Carl Wilhelm Scheele
    Dynamic viscosity → {'amount': '+1412'}, {'amount': '+934'}, {'amount': '+612'} +3
    Molar enthalpy of vaporization → {'amount': '+61.0'}
    + 50 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007531217005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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