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Uncommon card · Science
Glyceraldehyde, an Uncommon card
Glyceraldehyde is a triose monosaccharide with chemical formula C3H6O3.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 55
- DEF
- 44
- Power
- 99
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 99 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Glyceraldehyde quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Glyceraldehyde card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is the ______ of all common aldoses.
Answer
simplest. It is the simplest of all common aldoses. From the Glyceraldehyde article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Humberto Maturana. Humberto Maturana 65 · Franz Rosenzweig 62 · Susan Kilrain 58 · Glyceraldehyde 55 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is the simplest of all common aldoses.
- It is a sweet, colorless, crystalline solid that is an intermediate compound in carbohydrate metabolism.
- The word comes from combining glycerol and aldehyde, as glyceraldehyde is glycerol with one alcohol group oxidized to an aldehyde.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Glyceraldehyde article was read about 16,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 55 and blocks with 44: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Glyceraldehyde
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Glyceraldehyde (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : User:Innerstream, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
