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SUGAR, in chemistry, the generic name for a certain series of carbohydrates, i.e. substances of the general formula Cn(H2O)m. Formerly the name was given to compounds having a sweet taste, e.g. sugar of lead, but it is now restricted to certain oxyaldehydes an ...

SUGAR-BIRD, the English name commonly given in the West India Islands to the various members of the genus Certhiola, (belonging to the Passerine family Coerebidae1) for their habit of frequenting the curing-houses where sugar is kept, apparently attracted thit ...

... per Burma. The staple crop of the province is rice, along with cotton, tobacco, sugar, hemp and indigo. The forests produce abundance of excellent oak and teak timber. The natives of Arakan trace their history as far back as 2666 B.C., and give a lineal succes ...

... mineral resources. Amongst the cultivated products are mealies and manioc, the sugar-cane and cotton, coffee and tobacco plants. The chief exports are coffee, rubber, wax, palm kernels and palm-oil, cattle and hides and dried or salt fish. Gold dust, cotton, ...

... , and salt works are abundant. Of the manufactures of Anholt, the chief ore its sugar factories, distilleries, breweries and chemical works. Commerce is brisk, especially in raw products — corn, cattle, timber or wool. Coal (lignite), guano, oil and bricks are ...

... after a meal until a maximum is reached from about the 6th to the gth hour. If sugar be included in the meal the maximum is reached earlier; if mainly fat, later. Muscular work very largely increases the production of heat, and hence the more active the body ...

... tower, 335 ft. high. The industries consist of iron-foundries and factories for sugar and soap; and there is a military school. The Peene is navigable up to the town, which has a considerable trade in its own manufactures, as well as in the produce of the surr ...

... (1774-1843) in his Lailo and Manuel. Woollen fabrics are manufactured, and the sugar industry established in 1800 employs several thousand hands; but the majority of the inhabitants are occupied by the trade in grain, fruit, wine and oil. Marble is quarried; ...

... oductions are very similar to those of Ayacucho (q.v.), with the exception that sugar-cane is cultivated with noteworthy success in the low valley of the province of Abancay. The capital, Abancay, 1 10 m. south-west of Cuzco, which is only a village in size bu ...

... s vicinity, and the country tributary to this port produces large quantities of sugar. Cotton is also grown, and the back country sends down hides and skins for shipment. The anchorage is good, but a dangerous bar at the mouth of the river prevents the entranc ...

... consequence. Cattle, swine and goats are raised, and the state produces coffee, sugar, cacao, beans, cereals and cheese. The climate of the higher valleys is subtropical, the mean annual temperature ranging from 74° to 80° F. The capital, La Victoria (pop. 780 ...

... s occurred in Lancashire, which was traced to beer made from glucose and invert sugar, in the preparation of which sulphuric acid contaminated with arsenic was said to have been used. But the nature of the disease in this case was decidedly obscure. The sympto ...

... Evangelical church, an agricultural college and some manufactures of machinery, sugar and boots. Its brine springs, known as early as the isth century, are still frequented.

... hill is terraced with former native fortifications. Auckland has industries of sugar-refining, ship-building and paper-, rope- and brick-making, and timber is worked. The town was founded as capital of the colony in 1840 by Governor Hobson. There is communica ...

... Au.stria. The principal products are wheat, rye, barley, oats, maize, potatoes, sugar beet, and cattle turnip. The produce of the ploughed land docs not. on the whole suffice for the home requirements. Large quantities in particular o wheat and maize are impor ...

... stries include brewing, weaving and the manufacture of cloth, carpets, tobacco, sugar, leather-grease, toys and roofingfelt. Einbeck grew up originally round the monastery of St Alexander (founded 1080), famous for its relic of the True Blood. It is first reco ...

... of the modern Khuzistan, though Mordtmann would derive the latter from Jj2^ " a sugar-reed." Immediately bordering on the Persians were the Amardians or Mardians, as well as the people of Khapirti (Khatamti, according to Scheil), the name given to Susiana in t ...

... n Railway Company has important workshops here. Brewing, and the manufacture of sugar and of hats and caps, are also carried on. Epernay is the seat of a sub-prefect and has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, and communal colleges for girls and boys. ...

... . It is the commercial centre of a fertile district, which produces coffee, canesugar and cocoa; it has also a brisk transit trade in most of the products of Guatemala, owing to its position on the interoceanic railway between Puerto Barrios on the Atlantic an ...

... e widely cultivated sainfoin has done for dry chalky and other limestone soils. Sugar beet is most largely cultivated in the extreme north of France and the adjoining parts of Belgium and in central Germany, to a less but still considerable extent in south-eas ...

... s an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, and its industries include cloth, sugar and stocking manufactures, besides breweries and tanneries.

... t to the north in exchange for manufactured and grocery wares. It has important sugar manufacture, and a technical school.

... in 1884 £5,519,772, and in 1904 £7,063,579. The surrounding country is a great sugarcane district producing annually about 2,400,000 cwt. of sugar, and there is an extensive refinery in the town employing upwards of 600 workmen and possessing a reservoir for ...

SWEET-SOP, or Sugar Apple, botanical name Anona squamosa, a small tree or shrub with thin oblong-ovate leaves, solitary greenish flowers and a yellowish-green fruit, like a shortened pine cone in shape with a tubercle corresponding to each of the carpels from ...

... which are hard externally, but within filled with an acid juicy pulp containing sugar and various acids, such as citric and tartaric, in combination with potash. The acid pulp is used as a laxative and a refrigerant, the pods being largely imported both from t ...

... e production of tobacco is yearly increasing. Beetroot is extensively grown for sugar. Livestock breeding, though less extensively carried on than formerly, is still important. Excellent breeds of horses are met with, not only on the larger estates, but also i ...

... far from the city of that name. The products of the territorial coast lands are sugar, cotton, tobacco, maize, palm oil, coffee, fine woods and medicinal plants. Mining attracts much attention in the sierras, and its mineral deposits are rich. There are cotton ...

... es of machinery and metal goods, cotton and woollen goods, chemicals, hardware, sugar, dyeing and calicoprinting. The thermal springs are fabled to have been discovered as early as 762, but the first authentic mention of the baths occurs in the 1 6th century. ...

... consisting of the dried milk of thyroidectomized goats, mixed with 50 % of milk sugar. In exophthalmic goitre this preparation causes a reduction of the swelling and of the pulse rate, and an increase of body weight.

... n a declining condition. Other crops are rice, millets, wheat, maize, oilseeds, sugar-cane a»d tobacco. Apart from indigo there are no large industries. Since the famine of 1874 the whole country has been saved from its former isolation by the construction of ...

... , the chief exports being copra, coir and other coco-nut products, pepper, tea, sugar, areca-nuts, timber, hides, coffee, &c. The capital is Trivandrum. The revenue is £670,000 ; tribute, £80,000; military force, 1360 infantry, 61 cavalry and 30 artillery with ...

... xported. Manufactures have grown rapidly. Cotton-mills, flour-mills, tanneries, sugar-refineries, iron-foundries and distilleries are the chief establishments. The government of Tver is also the seat of important village industries, of which a remarkable varie ...

... it also possesses manufactures of linen, cotton, hats and paper, tanneries and sugar refineries, and has a considerable trade in flax, hemp, &c. Branch railways lead to Cividale del Friuli and S. Giorgio di Nogaro, and a steam tramway to S. Daniele del Friuli ...

... ble altarpiece dating from the I4th century. The principal industries are flax, sugar, tobacco and machinery, and there is a trade in cattle and horses. In the vicinity are some interesting Slavonic remains and the former Benedictine monastery of Ullesheim. Fo ...

... y tuff 580 ,, Blackrock diabase (cones and dikes). Longmeadow sandstone 1000 ,, Sugarloaf arkose 4660 ,, Mount Toby conglomerate. Unconformity. $ Devonian. Bernardston series 1950 ft. Unconformity. Silurian. Leyden argillite 300 ft. Conway schist 1 Amherst sch ...

... ,052 bu.; cabbages, 997,690 heads, and sweet corn, 16,192 bu. For the important sugarbeet crop, see below under Manufactures. On Gunnison and Hat islands in Great Salt Lake are valuable guano deposits which are used as fertilizers for vegetable gardens. The va ...

... he vegetation of the neighbourhood is most luxuriant, including the aloe, palm, sugar-cane, prickly pear, orange, vine, olive and sweet potato. Velez-Malaga was held by the Moors from 711 to 1487, when it was captured by Ferdinand of Castile. Under Moorish rul ...