Crossword-Solution: GLUCOSES 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Generally, therefore, it is proved that the more resistant tissue constituents of the fungi are not cellulose, but a complex of carbohydrates and nitrogenous groups in combination, the former being resolved into glucoses by acid hydrolysis, and the latter yielding acetic acid as a characteristic product of resolution together with the nitrogenous groups in the form of an uncrystallisable syrup.

Etym: [Iso- + dulcite.] (Chem.) Defn: A white, crystalline, sugarlike substance, obtained by the decomposition of certain glucosides, and intermediate in nature between the hexacid alcohols (ductile, mannite, etc.) and the glucoses.

The glucoses, or grape sugars, are ketone alcohols of the formula C6H12O6, and they turn the plane of polarization to the right or the left.

Naturally enough, the wood-pulp makers let the solution of resins run off and become a nuisance, but they, too, are learning that there are glucoses and pyroligneous acids and all manner of riches to be obtained from the solution of the vegetable matter, to say nothing of the possibilities of a sort of gum or glue which is softened both by heat and by moisture.

The glucoses are then fermented by certain species of bacteria, Bacillus furfuris being perhaps the chief, with the formation of lactic, acetic, formic and butyric acids, and the evolution of carbon dioxide, hydrogen, nitrogen, and a small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen.