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Lactose   /lˈæktoʊs/   Listen
Lactose

noun
1.
A sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk.  Synonym: milk sugar.



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"Lactose" Quotes from Famous Books



... to set up fermentative changes of this sort. In these cases the milk-sugar is decomposed in such a way as to give off CO{2} and H, and in some cases, alcohol. Russell and Hastings[210] found a lactose-splitting yeast in a severe outbreak of gassy cheese in a Swiss factory. In this case the gas did not develop until the cheese were a few weeks old. In severe cases the cheese actually ...
— Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition - A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying • H. L. Russell

... was working with a mixture consisting of 18 per cent. purified protein in the form of milk curd or casein, 20 per cent. lactose or milk sugar, 5 per cent. of a fat and a salt mixture made up to imitate the salt content of milk. The remainder of that mixture was starch. With this mixture McCollum found that growth could be produced if the fat were butter fat but not if it ...
— The Vitamine Manual • Walter H. Eddy



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