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A complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent
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sucrose
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After ingestion of sucrose , breath hydrogen was measured at 20 minute intervals for 160 minutes. ▪ Control subjects experienced the critical cues but not the sucrose . ▪ Energy content of 100 grams of sucrose is 400 kilocalories. ...
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n. a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent [syn: saccharose ]
Usage examples of sucrose.
Remember you’ll need glucose, lactose, dulcitol, sucrose, mannitol, maltose, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, and one tube for indole production.
As the subcellular particles are centrifuged in the gradient they are forced down the tube under gravity until they reach a zone in which the sucrose is the same density as they are.
A brief visit to the town library had provided the correct stochastic ratio for the explosive reaction between sodium hyper-chlorate and sucrose.