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Glyceraldehyde is a monosaccharide. When glycerol and
Fischer projections are the representation of bonds by using horizontal and vertical lines in three dimensional plane. The horizontal lines represent the bonds that are out of the plane and the vertical lines represent the bonds pointing out towards the back of the plane. The intersection between the two lines represents the carbon atom.
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