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Show ei sua nine vunsiance, preparoc chiefly from the expressed Juice of the sugar cane, and of the sugar beet, but obtained also from a great variety ol other plants, as maple, maize, "sorghum, "sor-ghum, birch, and parsnip." Sucrose is defined as "As general name for the sugars Identical in composition and in general properties with cane sugar, having the formula. ' 1 2112201 1 n Same as Saccharose " It defines saccharose sac-charose as: "1 The general name ol any crystalline sugar having the formula for-mula C H O. Which suffers hydrolosll ion heating with water or dilute mineral min-eral action, each molecule yielding two molecules of a glucose. 2 Specifically, Specifical-ly, the ordinary pure sugar of commerce, com-merce, obtained from the sugar cane or sorghum, from the beet root, and from the sap of a species of maple." From the foregoing authoritative definitions it will be seen that there is no possibility of determining the source from which a pure sugar crystal crys-tal derived, and to claim to be able to distinguish one from the other is to assume tho possession of a power of discernment and discrimination which the. scientists of the world, aided by all tho arte of chemistry and equipped equip-ped with the most delicate scientific apparatus, have failed to develop. oo |