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SUCROSE
sucrose, saccharose
(noun) a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sucrose (countable and uncountable, plural sucroses)
(carbohydrate) A disaccharide with formula C12H22O11, consisting of two simple sugars, glucose and fructose; normal culinary sugar.
Synonyms
• saccharose
Anagrams
• Cousers, Croesus, Crouses, Crœsus, Scouser, courses, rescous, scourse, scouser, sources
Source: Wiktionary
Su"crose`, n. Etym: [F. sucre sugar. See Sugar.] (Chem.)
Definition: A common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet root, etc. It is extracted as a sweet, white crystalline substance which is valuable as a food product, and, being antiputrescent, is largely used in the preservation of fruit. Called also saccharose, cane sugar, etc. By extension, any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type.
Note: Sucrose proper is a dextrorotatory carbohydrate, C12H22O11. It does not reduce Fehling's solution, and though not directly fermentable, yet on standing with yeast it is changed by the diastase present to invert sugar (dextrose and levulose), which then breaks down to alcohol and carbon dioxide. It is also decomposed to invert sugar by heating with acids, whence it is also called a disaccharate. Sucrose possesses at once the properties of an alcohol and a ketone, and also forms compounds (called sucrates) analogous to salts. Cf. Sugar.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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