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| | Trivial Name Information from Drugs.com |
 | | Such names are common for drugs, hormones, proteins, and other biologicals, and are used by the general public. |
 | | The distinction between trivial and semitrivial names is seldom made; thus tetrahydrofolate, methylglycine, glucosamine, etc., are often termed trivial even though each contains a systematic part that is used in the correct systematic sense (tetrahydro for four hydrogen atoms, methyl for a –CH group, amine for –NH in the above examples). |
 | | Trivial names are often assigned arbitrarily to chemical compounds, especially from natural sources, before the chemical structures, hence systematic names can be assigned. |
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