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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...so that the expression used was, not 'As sweet as sugar and the sugar-cane, ' but, 'As sweet as honey and the honey-comb.' Amongst an almost infinite variety of so-called sugars, as understood by chemists, there are three kinds which demand notice, viz., milk-sugar, canesugar, and grape or fruit-sugar. They have the same chemical elements, but differ much in sweetening power. Milk-sugar is so called because it is chiefly derived from the milk of animals, and cane and fruit sugars from having their chief sources in the sugar-canes and fruits. The former is less soluble and has less sweetening property than the latter, and its use is infinitesimally small. The usual sources of ordinary or cane-sugar are three, viz., the sugar-cane, maple-tree, and beet-root, but of these the former far exceeds both the others. The sugar-cane grows, or may be grown freely and almost universally, in hot or tropical countries, as the lowlands of the Mississippi, the West Indian Islands, the Bermudas, the Mauritius, Java, the Brazils, parts of the East Indies, and also over extensive tracts in Asia, at even considerable elevations. It is not grown in the temperate regions of Europe, or in districts where the elevation is so great as to reduce the temperature to that of temperate climates, and everywhere the product varies as the degree of heat, other conditions being equal. The cane grows to twelve or even twenty feet in height, and to one inch and upwards in width, so that a field of canes fully grown and in flower presents a very handsome appearance (No. 97). The chemical composition of the cane is as follows, per cent.: --No. 96. Water 72-1 Sugar 18-0 Woody fibro and salts 9-9 There is a larger proportion of sugar in the juices at the lower part of the stem, and 100 lbs. of mixe.
| ISBN-13 | 9780217212816 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217212816 |
| Weight | 1.14 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.79 In |
| List Price | $23.09 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 352 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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