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saccharose

American  
[sak-uh-rohs] / ˈsæk əˌroʊs /

noun

Chemistry.

  1. sucrose.

saccharose British  
/ ˈsækəˌrəʊz, -ˌrəʊs /

noun

  1. a technical name for sugar

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Etymology

Origin of saccharose

First recorded in 1875–80; sacchar- + -ose 2

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The author, in 1914, commenced the differentiation of the types by means of dulcite and saccharose and obtained the results shown in Table XVIII.

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By no chemical test known to the United States Department of Agriculture can pure crystallized saccharose from these different sources be distinguished.

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The most important application of inosite-free bouillon is its use in the preparation of sugar bouillons, whether glucose, maltose, lactose, or saccharose, of exact percentage composition.

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A new method for the analysis of saccharose and raffinose, when in the presence of inverted sugar, is said to give accurate results.

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This organism has the power of transforming milk sugar and other saccharoses into lactic acid, with evolution of carbonic acid gas.

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