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Definition of Maltose

1. Noun. A white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches.

Definition of Maltose

1. n. A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of diastase of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.

Definition of Maltose

1. Noun. (carbohydrates) A disaccharide, C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ formed from the digestion of starch by amylase; is converted to glucose by maltase. ¹

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Definition of Maltose

1. a type of sugar [n -S]

Medical Definition of Maltose

1. Disaccharide intermediate of the breakdown of starch, glucose _(1-4) glucose. Fermentable substrate in brewing. (20 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maltose

Literary usage of Maltose

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

1. An Introduction to the Chemistry of Plant Products by Paul Haas, Thomas George Hill (1917)
"Estimation of maltose. Three points must here be remembered: firstly, that maltose will reduce Fehling's solution; secondly, that this reduction may not be ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Towards sulphuric acid it is 1240 times as stable ая sucrose, and slightly more stable than maltose. Stronger acids hydrolyse it to dextrose and galactose, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Towards sulphuric acid it is 1240 times as stable as sucrose, and slightly more stable than maltose. Stronger acids hydrolyse it to dextrose and galactose, ..."

4. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1898)
"In alcohol, maltose dissolves with less facility than sucrose. The rotatory power of freshly-made solutions of maltose is less than that of solutions which ..."

5. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann, Joseph Merritt Matthews (1898)
"maltose usually occurs in fine crystalline needles, which contain C1? ... In alcohol, maltose dissolves with less facility than sucrose. ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"This converts about one-fifth of the starch into true glucose (dextrose), the remainder being about three parts maltose and two parts dextrins. ..."

7. Physiological chemistry: A Text-book and Manual for Students by Albert Prescott Mathews (1916)
"This was believed to split off maltose under the action of malt diastase and to give ... This losing another molecule of maltose went into a second ..."

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