Glucose can convert to ethanol and carbon dioxide, using no oxygen {fermentation}|. Glucose converts to pyruvate. Pyruvate converts to acetaldehyde by losing carbon dioxide. Acetaldehyde reduces to ethanol using NADH. Berzelius described fermentation [1837].
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