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Another word for yeast

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Noun

  1. A mass of bubbles in or on the surface of a liquid

    See also:

    solid

  2. An agent that stimulates or precipitates a reaction, development, or change

    See also:

    change

Verb

  1. To form or cause to form foam

    See also:

    solid

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Another word for yeast

Noun
  1. See also:

    fungus

    enzyme

    catalyst

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Sentence Examples

  • The yeast plant and its allies are saprophytes and form no chlorophyll.

  • It was, for nearly two years after this, rye and Indian meal without yeast, potatoes, rice, a very little salt pork, molasses, and salt; and my drink, water.

  • Pasteur found that, when cane sugar was fermented by yeast, 49.4% of carbonic acid and 51.1% of alcohol were produced; with expressed yeast juice cane sugar yields 47% of carbonic acid and 47.7% of alcohol.

  • In 1894 and 1895, Fischer, in a remarkable series of papers on the influence of molecular structure upon the action of the enzyme, showed that various species of yeast behave very differently towards solutions of sugars.

  • These investigators regarded yeast as a plant, and Meyer gave to the germs the systematic name of "Saccharomyces" (sugar fungus).

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