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Glycerol is a common and well known colorless, ododrless, hygroscopic and sweet-testing viscous liquid. Glycerol is a sugar alcohol and has three hydrophilic alcoholic hydroxyl groups (-oh) that are responsible for its solubility in water. Glycerol is prochiral. Glycerol is produced from dihydroxyacetone phosphate (dhap) by the enzyme glycerol three-phosphate dehydrogenase (gpd p) in the mitochondrion of the eukaryotic cell during glycolysis.Glycerol is used in glycerol soap, in cosmetics and creams, in foods, in chemistry, and in glycerol fog machine mist. This chemical compound is ideal for medical and pharmaceutical preparations, mainly as a means of improving smoothness, providing lubrication and as a humectant. This organic material is even used to lower intracranial and intraocular pressures. Apart from this application, this organic material serves as a humectant, solvent and sweetener to preserve food for a long time. This can be added to solutions of water and soap to increase that solution's ability to generate soap bubbles that lasts for a long time.
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