diastatic
Americanadjective
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Biochemistry.
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of or relating to diastase.
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having the properties of diastase.
diastatic action.
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Medicine/Medical, Physiology. of or relating to diastasis.
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Origin of diastatic
First recorded in 1880–85, diastatic is from the Greek word diastatikós separative. See dia-, static
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Measure in the flour, then add salt, yeast and diastatic malt to the bowl, pressing tare after each addition.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023
Bertinet uses honey, Joseph soft light-brown sugar, Roden sugar, Cook's Illustrated malt syrup, and Baron Baking diastatic malt powder, which I have to order online.
From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2014
Test cultivations of the organism for the presence of— Soluble enzymes—proteolytic, diastatic, invertase.
From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)
That they were not true malt extracts is shown by the fact that in no one was there the slightest diastatic power; all were alcoholic, some being stronger than beer, ale, or even porter.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir
The phenomena of catalysis and of diastatic fermentation have for the first time been brought under the general laws of energetics.
From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane
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