Dextrin - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: dextrinErythrodextrin
A dextrin which gives a red color with iodine See Dextrin...
Cerealin
A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase obtained from bran and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin sugar and lactic acid...
Dextrin
A translucent gummy amorphous substance nearly tasteless and odorless used as a substitute for gum for sizing etc and obtained from starch by the action of heat acids or diastase It is of somewhat variable composition containing several carbohydrates which change easily to their respective varieties of sugar It is so named from its rotating the plane of polarization to the right called also British gum Alsace gum gommelin leiocome etc See Achrooumldextrin and Erythrodextrin...
Diastase
A soluble enzyme capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar...
Gommelin
See Dextrin...
Granulose
The main constituent of the starch grain or granule in distinction from the framework of cellulose Unlike cellulose it is colored blue by iodine and is converted into dextrin and sugar by boiling acids and amylolytic ferments...
Levulin
A substance resembling dextrin obtained from the bulbs of the dahlia the artichoke and other sources as a colorless spongy amorphous material It is so called because by decomposition it yields levulose...
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