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Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot
(Encyclopedia)Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot, 1910–94, English chemist and X-ray crystallographer, b. Egypt. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry for determining the structure of biochemical compounds (...sugar beet
(Encyclopedia)sugar beet, variety of beet used commercially as a source of sugar. ...Sugar Land
(Encyclopedia)Sugar Land, city (2000 pop. 63,328), Fort Bend co., SE Texas, on the Brazos River and Oyster Creek, a W suburb of Houston; inc. 1959. The city, which now has a diversified economy, began as a pre–Ci...sugar maple
(Encyclopedia)sugar maple: see maple.sugar substitute
(Encyclopedia)sugar substitute: see sweetener, artificial. ...grape sugar
(Encyclopedia)grape sugar: see glucose.milk sugar
(Encyclopedia)milk sugar: see lactose.fruit sugar
(Encyclopedia)fruit sugar: see fructose.cane sugar
(Encyclopedia)cane sugar: see sucrose.beet sugar
(Encyclopedia)beet sugar: see beet; sucrose. ...Browse by Subject
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