The Romance of Glucose

Explore the unique tattoo of glucose that symbolizes a lost love and its connection to chemistry.

Written byCarl Zimmer
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"Here’s a tattoo of glucose (b-D-glucopyranose, to be more exact) that I have on my back. Somewhere out there is a young lady with the same tattoo in smaller version on her ankle. Alas, a lost love…" --A chemistry professor

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