sucrose
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kroʊs noun Chemistry.
a crystalline disaccharide, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , the sugar obtained from the sugarcane, the sugar beet, and sorghum, and forming the greater part of maple sugar; sugar.
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sucrose (ˈsjuːkrəʊz, -krəʊs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| the technical name for sugar | |
| [C19: from French sucre sugar + | |
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Sucrose
is always a great word to know.
So is nonpolar covalent bond. Does it mean:
| any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically cont |
| electrons are shared evenly |
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Word Origin & History
sucrose
1857, formed from Fr. sucre "sugar" (see sugar) + chemical suffix -ose.
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Medical Dictionary
sucrose su·crose (s&oomacr;'krōs')
n.
A nonreducing crystalline disaccharide made up of glucose and fructose, found in many plants but extracted as ordinary sugar mainly from sugar cane and sugar beets, and widely used as a sweetener or preservative.
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Science Dictionary
sucrose (s 'krōs') Pronunciation Key
A crystalline sugar found in many plants, especially sugar cane, sugar beets, and sugar maple. It is used widely as a sweetener. Sucrose is a disaccharide composed of fructose and glucose. Also called table sugar. Chemical formula: C12H22O11. |
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Example sentences
For example, it secretes an enzyme called invertase that breaks the sugar sucrose in half, forming glucose and fructose.
Photosynthesis generates sucrose, or table sugar, which is broken down into glucose and the sweeter fructose during ripening.
Then she brushes on sucrose to test my sense of sweet, citric acid to test sour, and quinine to test bitter.
The enzyme splits sucrose into fructose and glucose, researchers found, then adds the glucose to the growing plaque strings.
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