glycerine

glycerine
\ \ [19] Greek glukús meant ‘sweet’ (its derivative gleukossweet thing’ is the ancestor of English glucose [19]). It had a variant glukerōs, which the French chemist Michel- Eugène Chevreul took as the basis of a name of a recently discovered syrupy liquid obtained from fats or oils – glycerin (adopted by English as glycerine or glycerin).
\ \ Cf.GLUCOSE

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