Definitions for sucrose

sucrose su·crose

Spelling: [soo-krohs]
IPA: /ˈsu kroʊs/

Sucrose is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in sucrose (ceorssu).

Definitions for sucrose

noun

  1. a crystalline disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , the sugar obtained from the sugarcane, the sugar beet, and sorghum, and forming the greater part of maple sugar; sugar.

Origin of sucrose

1855-60; French sucre sugar + -ose2

Examples for sucrose

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

sucrose also augments in the aleurone layer, but starch is never formed in the aleurone cells.

This is found to be true also of sucrose, reducing sugars, and many organic compounds.

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

It dissolves in its own weight of water, being three times less soluble than sucrose.

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

The theoretical yield then of alcohol from sucrose would be 53 per cent and from invert sugar 51 per cent.

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

Ordinary molasses contains from 30 to 35 per cent of sucrose and almost as much glucose.

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

Word Value for sucrose
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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