syrup
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syrup A solution of sugar which may be from a variety of sources, such as maple or sorghum, or stages in refining cane and beet sugar such as top syrup, refiners' syrup, sugar syrup, golden syrup, or by hydrolysis of
starch (glucose or
corn syrup).
Glucose syrup is the concentrated solution of sugars from the acid or enzymic hydrolysis of starch (usually maize or potato starch); a mixture of varying amounts of glucose, maltose, and glucose complexes. Usually 70% total solids by weight, containing glucose, maltose, and oligomers of glucose of three, four, or more units. May be in dried form. Used as a sweetening agent in sugar confectionery; also termed corn syrup, corn starch hydrolysate, starch syrup, confectioners' glucose, and uncrystallizable syrup.
Pancake syrup or maple flavour syrup is flavoured glucose syrup.
See also
corn syrup;
dextrose equivalent value.
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Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought and Influence, 2 vols.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...FORTENBAUGH, William W. et al., eds. Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for his Life...ancient world. Under the name "project Theophrastus" and the leadership of William Fortenbaugh...reports for our understand- ing of Theophrastus's thought, its relationship to Aristotle...
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Impressions of Theophrastus Such.
Magazine article from: Criticism; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...last published work, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, is a minor achievement, but...Accordingly, the title Impressions of Theophrastus Such, refers not only to intellectual...or imitation of the original Greek Theophrastus, who invented the genre of the "character...
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Theophrastus and his world.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 475 words
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Theophrastus of Eresus; on weather signs.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 3/1/2007; 468 words
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Columns: A good idea from... Theophrastus
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/21/1999; ; 674 words
; ...struck the ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus (c371-287BC), because he wrote...sprinkling himself from a sacred spring," Theophrastus wrote, "and by chewing leaves of...s recognisably the same type that Theophrastus had in mind. In a sense, it's an...
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Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought and Influence, vol. 8, Sources on Rhetoric and Poetics (Texts 666-713 ).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2005; 551 words
; PA4450 91-33945 90-04-14247-9 Theophrastus of Eresus; sources for his life, writings thought and...505 p. $134.00 No original works by Greek philosopher Theophrastus (370-285 BCE) survive, and his ideas are only preserved...
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Theophrastus of Eresus; sources for his life, writings, thoughts and influence. Commentary v.2: Logic.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2007; 472 words
; 9789004152984 Theophrastus of Eresus; sources for his life, writings, thoughts and influence...commentary on the sources for information about Greek philosopher Theophrastus (370-285 BC) published in two volumes in 1992. Here she looks...
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Priscian: On Theophrastus' On Sense-Perception with "Simplicius": On Aristotle's On the Soul 2.5-12.(Review) (book reviews)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; PRISCIAN. Priscian: On Theophrastus' On Sense-Perception; with "Simplicius": On Aristotle...the intrinsic value of the works themselves. Of the two, On Theophrastus' On Sense-Perception provides some interesting parallels...
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Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541); essential theoretical writings.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 486 words
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Tribute to a 16th century iatrochemist. (Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim) (Chemical History)
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry; 10/4/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...anniversary of the birth of one of the most extraordinary and outrageous figures in the history of science. His real name was Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, but he called himself Paracelsus. For much of his life he was an outcast who wandered around central...
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Theophrastus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Theophrastus ( c. 372–287 bc), Greek...the churlish. The popularity of Theophrastus in modern times dates from I. Casaubon...but before then J. Hall enlarged Theophrastus' scope, in his Characters of Vertues...
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Theophrastus Such
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Theophrastus Such, see Impressions of Theophrastus Such, The .
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Impressions of Theophrastus Such, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Impressions of Theophrastus Such, The, a volume of essays by G. Eliot , published 1879. Most of the 18 essays are character studies loosely based on the model of Theophrastus .
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Paracelsus, Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
PARACELSUS, THEOPHRASTUS PHILIPPUS AUREOLUS BOMBASTUS VON HOHENHEIM ( b. Einsiedeln, Switzerland, ca. 1493 [or 1 May 1494(?)]; d. Salzburg...
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Eudemus of Rhodes
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...but his links with Aristotle and Theophrastus show when he flourished. Nothing is...opinion to such an extent that he and Theophrastus of Lesbos were known as Aristotle...choose his successor; they agreed that Theophrastus and Eudemus were preeminent among them...
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