Definition of Grape sugar

1. Noun. An isomer of glucose that is found in honey and sweet fruits.

Exact synonyms: Dextroglucose, Dextrose
Generic synonyms: Glucose

Medical Definition of Grape sugar

1. See: d-glucose. Invert sugar, a mixture of equal parts of d-glucose and d-fructose produced by hydrolysis of sucrose (inversion). (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grape Sugar

granzymes
grape-leaf begonia
grape-stone
grape arbor
grape arbour
grape endings
grape fern
grape fruit
grape hyacinth
grape jelly
grape juice
grape louse
grape phylloxera
grape sugar (current term)
grape wine
graped
grapefruit
grapefruit juice
grapefruit peel
grapefruitlike
grapefruits
grapefruity
grapeless
grapelike
graperies
grapery
grapes
grapeseed

Literary usage of Grape sugar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"A proportion of inverted sugar (§ 220) occasionally met with in cane-sngar, and falsifications of crude cane-sugar with the less sweet grape-sugar, ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1895)
"OF the quantity of ash in glucose syrup and grape-sugar now offered in open ... Hydrated grape-sugar, so-called "70" sugar, manufactured by the American ..."

3. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"but when boiled with dilute sulphuric acid it is transformed into grape-sugar.1 From the latter it is distinguished not only by its stronger rotatory power, ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The manufacture of glucose or grape-sugar from starch in the United States ... In 1874 the Buffalo Grape-Sugar Company was organized ; it grew into a vast ..."

5. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1856)
"There is a remarkable difference between the fermentable property of cane sugar and grape sugar, which has not hitherto been sufficiently noticed, ..."

6. Elements of Chemistry by Victor Regnault, James Curtis Booth, William L. Faber (1865)
"turning the plane of polarization toward the left; while under the same conditions, grape-sugar undergoes no change, and continues to turn toward the right. ..."

7. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"There is a remarkable difference between the fermentable property of cane sugar and grape sugar, which has not hitherto been sufficiently noticed, ..."

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