HMF
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- (chemistry) 5-hydroxymethylfurfuran
- 2006, J. R. Minkel, “Pre-Plastic Fantastic”, in Scientific American, 259(3):36:
- To obtain pure HMF, chemists have had to redissolve it in a solvent that is hard to boil away, making the process costly and inefficient.