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sucrose

/soo-krohs/US // ˈsu kroʊs //UK // (ˈsjuːkrəʊz, -krəʊs) //

蔗糖,蔗

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chemistry.

    • : a crystalline disaccharide, C12H22O11, the sugar obtained from the sugarcane, the sugar beet, and sorghum, and forming the greater part of maple sugar; sugar.

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Examples

  • In refined form, sugar (also known as sucrose) has been linked to everything from heart disease to diabetes.

  • It doesn't matter, they say, whether that calorie comes from table sugar (sucrose) or HFCS.

  • Every fructose molecule in sucrose, in contrast, is bound to a glucose.

  • Sucrose or cane sugar is most commonly manufactured from sugar cane and sugar beets.

  • But it is only with the crystallized sucrose, the familiar sugar of the market and the household, that we are dealing here.

  • These processes produce what is called "raw sugar," of varying percentages of sucrose content.

  • Sergeant Holden, go at once to the nearest Commissary and requisition 454 grams of sucrose.

  • The man of whom we leased this acreage said he had a yield of from six to eight tons of sucrose an acre every year.