SACCHAROSE

otherwise known as Sucrose or Cane Sugar. The most §mportant of the di-saccharides, having the chemical formula Ci2:H22011. t| occurs naturally in many plants, but the chief natural sources from which it is obtained are the sugar cane, which yields from 15 to 20 per cent, and the sugar beet, which yields about 16 percent. It fs found in small percentages in many sweet fruits, and is the chief constituent of maple sugar. Pure saccharose occurs as colorle crystals, melting at 160° C. and di olving, at ordinary temperatures, in one-third its weight of water. When and permitted to solidify, it melted forms barley-sugar, a pale yellow gla y ma . When hea to 200° C. it is converted into caramel. Eng. politician and clergyman; 1724), 1709 denounced Revolution Settle in Act of Toleration; im ed ment and Whigs, he was found guilty, but ‘by popular opinion in his favor forced Whigs to resign. 91), Eng. politician and anti-Catholic agitator; originator of Exclusion Bill, etc.; famous orator; prominent at revolution, 1688.