Definitions for dextrose

dextrose dex·trose

Spelling: [dek-strohs]
IPA: /ˈdɛk stroʊs/

Dextrose is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 245 anagrams from letters in dextrose (deeorstx).

Definitions for dextrose

noun

  1. dextroglucose, commercially obtainable from starch by acid hydrolysis.

Origin of dextrose

First recorded in 1865-70; dextr- + -ose2

Examples for dextrose

The plane of rotation is rotated to the right by sucrose rather more powerfully than by dextrose.

Lfflers serum is made by adding one part of dextrose broth to three parts of serum and then coagulating as above.

By this means the starch is partially converted into dextrose, a sugar, and dextrin, a gum.

It appears to be resolved by ultimate hydrolysis into dextrose and mannose.

That is, sucrose is converted into levulose and dextrose sugars.

Both sucrose, or cane sugar, and dextrose produce rotation upon a ray of polarised light.

On saponifying, it is split up into digitogenin, galactose, and dextrose.

Sugar (dextrose) is present in the same concentration as in the blood.

dextrose, saccharose and lactose are the most used, though many others are used for special purposes.

In the case of dextrose, &c., the yields represent the weight of syrup.

Word Value for dextrose
Scrable

16

Words with friends

16

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