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sterol

Sterol vs Undefined - What's the difference?

sterol | undefined |


As a noun sterol

is sterol.

As an adjective undefined is

lacking a definition or value.

Sterol vs Ester - What's the difference?

sterol | ester |


As nouns the difference between sterol and ester

is that sterol is sterol while ester is ester.

Sterol vs Sterile - What's the difference?

sterol | sterile |


As a noun sterol

is sterol.

As an adjective sterile is

sterile, barren, unprolific, infertile.

Sterol vs Triterpenoid - What's the difference?

sterol | triterpenoid |


As nouns the difference between sterol and triterpenoid

is that sterol is any member of a class of steroids containing a hydroxyl group in the 3-position of the A-ring; they are found in all animal and plant tissue and play an important role in hormone chemistry while triterpenoid is a terpenoid having a C30 skeleton.

As an adjective triterpenoid is

of, or relating to a triterpene or triterpenoid.

Sterol vs Terpenoid - What's the difference?

sterol | terpenoid |


As nouns the difference between sterol and terpenoid

is that sterol is any member of a class of steroids containing a hydroxyl group in the 3-position of the A-ring; they are found in all animal and plant tissue and play an important role in hormone chemistry while terpenoid is a very large class of naturally occurring and synthetic organic compounds formally derived from the hydrocarbon isoprene; they include many volatile compounds used in perfume and food flavours, turpentine, the steroids, the carotene pigments and rubber.

Sterol vs Wax - What's the difference?

sterol | wax |


As nouns the difference between sterol and wax

is that sterol is sterol while wax is beeswax or wax can be (rare) the process of growing or wax can be (dated|colloquial) an outburst of anger.

As an adjective wax is

made of wax.

As a verb wax is

to apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny or wax can be to increasingly assume the specified characteristic, become.

Sterol - What does it mean?

sterol | |

Wikidiffcom vs Sterol - What's the difference?

wikidiffcom | sterol |


As a noun sterol is

sterol.

Sterol vs Cholesteroid - What's the difference?

sterol | cholesteroid |

Cholesteroid is likely misspelled.


Cholesteroid has no English definition.

As a noun sterol

is any member of a class of steroids containing a hydroxyl group in the 3-position of the A-ring; they are found in all animal and plant tissue and play an important role in hormone chemistry.

Sterol vs Carotenoid - What's the difference?

sterol | carotenoid |


As nouns the difference between sterol and carotenoid

is that sterol is sterol while carotenoid is (organic chemistry) any of a class of yellow to red plant pigments including the carotenes and xanthophylls.

As an adjective carotenoid is

(organic chemistry) of or relating to such a class of pigments.

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