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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 222

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lted in the factthat fermentations were chiefly caused by the activity of living cells, whichhave the capacity of reproduction. The most common form of fermentationis that whereby sugar is converted into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Thename of the organism that produces this change is saccharomyces… … I-OUIS PASTEUK. whereby the starch is converted into sugar. The active principle of thesaliva, ptyalin, has the same property, and when starchy bodies are masti-cated, a part, at least, of the starch which they contain is ((inverted intosugar. The active principle of malt is known as diastase, and…

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