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A chemical process involving the addition of the elements of water.

the trioses, tetroses, pentoses, hexoses, etc.), not decomposable into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some, a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a ketone group.

dely distributed in plants, as in fruits, gums, woods, hay, etc.) which yield pentoses on hydrolysis.

A disaccharide present in glycosides. Prepared from rutin by hydrolysis with rhamnodiastase. 6-O-a-L-rhamnosyl-D-glucose; C12H22O10.

A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three simple sugar molecules.

A gummy substance of the pentosan class, present in woody tissue, and yielding xylose on hydrolysis; wood gum.

An unfermentable sugar of the pentose class, C5H10O5, formed by the hydrolysis of xylan; wood sugar.