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Encyclopedia > Sugar (disambiguation)
Look up Sugar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Sugar can mean: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...

In Film Magnified view of refined sugar crystals. ... Biochemistry is the study of the chemistry of life, a bridge between biology and chemistry that studies how complex chemical reactions give rise to life. ... Carbohydrates are chemical compounds that contain oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon atoms. ... Monosaccharides are the simplest form of carbohydrates. ... Glucose (Glc), a monosaccharide, is one of the most important carbohydrates. ... Fructose (or levulose) is a simple sugar (monosaccharide) found in many foods and one of the three most important blood sugars along with glucose and galactose. ... Galactose (also called brain sugar) is a type of sugar found in dairy products, in sugar beets and other gums and mucilages. ... In chemistry, disaccharides are carbohydrates consisting of two monosaccharide units. ... Sucrose (common name: table sugar, also called saccharose) is a disaccharide with the molecular formula C12H22O11. ... α-Maltose Maltose (also: malt sugar, di-glucose) is a disaccharide with the molecular formula C12H22O11. ... Lactose is a disaccharide that makes up around 2-8% of the solids in milk. ... Polysaccharides (sometimes called glycans) are relatively complex carbohydrates. ... Starch is a complex carbohydrate which is insoluble in water. ... Electron micrograph of a section of a liver cell showing glycogen deposits as accumulations of electron dense particles (arrows). ... Cellulose (C6H10O5)n is a long-chain polymeric polysaccharide carbohydrate, of beta-glucose. ... Magnified view of refined sugar crystals. ...

In Television: Drew Barrymore, in Riding in Cars with Boys (2001). ... Batman Forever (1995) is the third of the Batman movies which began with Tim Burtons 1989 version of the character, although it is a major departure from previous entries in the franchise, with the dramatic changes to such things as the cast, design and Danny Elfmans theme, which...

In Music: A stage name or a screen name is a pseudonym used by performers - such as actors, comedians, musicians and clowns. ... Stephanie Beard and Carlos Bustamente hosting The Zone Stephanie Beard (born August 27, 1980 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada), also known as Sugar and Suga BayBee, is a Canadian actress, voice actress and television and radio personality. ... This article is about Canadian television. ... Little Snow Fairy Sugar ) is a manga and an anime series with character designs by Koge-Donbo. ... // Atom, star of the long-running science fiction series Mighty Atom (also known as Astro Boy to Western audiences). ... Little Snow Fairy Sugar ) is a manga and an anime series with character designs by Koge-Donbo. ...

Places: Some Like It Hot is a 1959 comedy film cowritten and directed by Billy Wilder. ... Sugar was an indie rock band of the early 1990s led by former Hüsker Dü vocalist/guitarist Bob Mould. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ... The terms alternative rock and alternative music were coined in the 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired bands which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ... K-pop is an abbreviation for Korean pop. ... Sugar is a single by the Armenian-American rock group System of a Down. ... System of a Down (sometimes referred to as S.O.A.D., or System) is an alternative metal band from Hollywood, California that formed in 1995. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Sugar, Sugar was a 1969 hit song, supposedly by fictional characters The Archies, actually the product of a group of studio musicians managed by Don Kirschner, with vocals by Ron Dante. ... The Archies are a group of adolescent fictional characters of the Archie universe, a garage band founded by Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones. ...

People: City nickname: The Land of Sugar City slogan: Sugar Land. ... A state of the United States (U.S. state) is any one of the fifty states, four of which officially favor the term commonwealth which, along with the District of Columbia, form the United States of America. ... Official language(s) None. ...

In Computer science: Sir Alan Sugar in The Apprentice. ...

  • Syntactic sugar is a term for convenient additions to the syntax of a computer language

In Engineering: Syntactic sugar is a term coined by Peter J. Landin for additions to the syntax of a computer language that do not affect its expressiveness but make it sweeter for humans to use. ...

  • SUGAR is a MEMS simulation software tool analogous to SPICE.

Screen shot of Spice OPUS, a fork of Berkeley SPICE SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuits Emphasis) is a general purpose analog circuit simulator. ...

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Sugar (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (240 words)
Sugar, in biochemistry, the simpler forms of carbohydrates including monosaccharides (simple sugars) such as glucose, fructose, and galactose; disaccharides (double sugars) such as sucrose, maltose, and lactose; trisaccharides; and the oligosaccharides (but not including polysaccharides, such as starch, glycogen, and cellulose).
Sugar, Sugar, a single by the group The Archies.
Sugar Land, a city in the U.S. state of Texas
Sugar - Biocrawler (3985 words)
Refined sugar can be made by dissolving raw sugar and purifying it with a phosphoric acid method similar to that used for blanco directo, a carbonatation process involving calcium hydroxide and carbon dioxide, or by various filtration strategies.
While sugar cane could not be grown in northern Europe, sugar could be extracted from certain beets and these began to be widely cultivated around 1801, after the British control of the seas during the Napoleonic wars isolated mainland Europe from the Caribbean.
Sugar mill construction is the missing link of the technological skills needed for the Industrial Revolution that is recognized as beginning in the first part of the 1600s.
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