The difference between maltose and molasses
is that "maltose" is a disaccharide, C12H22O11 formed from the digestion of starch by amylase; is converted to glucose by maltase; it is an isomer of trehalose and "molasses" is a thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar.
maltose
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molasses
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Noun
- (biochemistry) A disaccharide, C12H22O11 formed from the digestion of starch by amylase; is converted to glucose by maltase; it is an isomer of trehalose
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Noun
- A thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar.
Synonyms
- long sweetening, treacle
- sorghum syrup
Examples
- When you’re well enough off so’s you don’t have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers’ Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
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