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Definition of Sucrose

1. Noun. A complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent.

Definition of Sucrose

1. n. 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.

Definition of Sucrose

1. Noun. (carbohydrates) A disaccharide with formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, consisting of two simple sugars, glucose and fructose; normal culinary sugar ¹

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Definition of Sucrose

1. a type of sugar [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sucrose

Literary usage of Sucrose

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

1. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"The amt. of this increased reduction depends on the concn. of sucrose, reducing sugar, and Cu soin., and on the manner of heating. ..."

2. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"Crystals of sucrose may take up soluble coloring matter from the mother liquor during ... Although sucrose in solution is optically active, its crystals, ..."

3. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1890)
"Stalks small, but the variety is valuable for its high sucrose and early ... Maximum sucrose, 13.9 October 7. A good variety, but rather slender and falls ..."

4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"In the inversion of sucrose by invertase, for example, the velocity coefficient, calculated by the formula for a unimolecular reaction, increases with the ..."

5. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach (1920)
"In polarizing solutions of all the common sugars other than sucrose the phenomenon ... If the two readings are virtually the same, sucrose is absent, but, ..."

6. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach (1920)
"In polarizing solutions of all the common sugars other than sucrose the phenomenon ... If the two readings are virtually the same, sucrose is absent, but, ..."

7. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik. Holleman (1920)
"sucrose itself is strongly dextrorotatory, so that the rotation has been ... sucrose does not show the reactions characteristic of the monoses: thus, ..."

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