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Identify the sugars in amygdalin.

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It consist of glucose. To be specific, it had two molecules of glucose known as benzaldehyde and hydrocyanic acid.

Step-by-step explanation:

Amygdalin is a white, bitter-tasting, water-soluble, glyosidic power, C20H27NO11, usually obtained from bitter almond seeds and the leaves of plants of the genus Prunus and related genera: used chiefly in medicine as an expectorant.

Now let's go onto the others.

Glucose is a sugar, C6H12O6, having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory from (laevoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.

The benzaldehyde molecule contains a total of 14 atom(s). There are 6 Hydrogen atom(s), 7 Carbon atom(s) and 1 Oxygen atom(s) A chemical formula of benzaldehyde can therefore be written as:C7H6O.

A solution of hydrogen cyanide in water, represented as HCN, is called hydrocyanic acid. Hydrogen cyanide is a colorless, poisonous bas, HCN, having a bitter almond like odor: in aqueous solution it forms hydrocyanic acid.

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