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Why dextrose rather than normal saline?
It's a monosaccharide. Sucrose breaks into glucose and fructose. Glucose is more easily metabolized. Why add two sugars when one will do? Answer: Glucose is the sugar that our cells use for energy. When we eat sucrose (table sugar) it is converted to glucose (metabolized) before the cells are able to use it. This is done by a system that evolved to receive sucrose via the digestive tract. It does not work well when supplied intravenously, and so direct injection of sucrose into the blood could seriously alter blood chemistry with a number of unwanted consequences.
What is sucrose's electronegativity?
The electronegativity of sucrose is not determined by the sucrose molecule itself, but rather by the individual atoms that make up sucrose. Sucrose is composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms, each with their own electronegativity values. The overall electronegativity of sucrose is a weighted average of the electronegativities of these individual atoms.
Is Mountain Dew made with real sugar?
Yes, no (or, rather, "only partially"), and maybe.Pepsi has recently (Dec 2009) released something called "Mountain Dew Throwback" which is made with sucrose only rather than "high fructose corn sweetener." Sucrose is what most people mean when they say "real sugar."Regular Mountain Dew is made at least partially with high fructose corn sweetener, which is a mixture of fructose and glucose.However, fructose and glucose are both "sugars" in a chemistry sense, so even that is technically made with sugar... just not table sugar (cane sugar/beet sugar), which is sucrose.
Are athletes more worried about appearance rather than playing?
No most athletes are more worried about playing than the way they look
Why should athletes drink solutions that are isotonic to body fluids when they exercise rather than ones that are hypotonic to body fluids?
Isotonic solutions are absorbed more quickly by the body and help replace lost fluids and electrolytes during exercise, maintaining hydration and performance. Hypotonic solutions can dilute the body's fluids, potentially disrupting the body's electrolyte balance and leading to issues like hyponatremia.
What is the specific heat of liquid sucrose?
Don't know about liquid sucrose.... but the specific heat capacity of sucrose is 0.30. This means that 0.30 calories of heat are required to raise the temperature of one gram of sucrose by one degree celsius.You sure you don't mean a sucrose solution... rather than liquid sucrose? Seems unlikely to have pure liquid sucrose, and very likely to have a water-based sucrose syrup solution. If that's the case, then it depends a great deal on the concentration of the solution itself.According to the pdf (link to the left of this answer), the specific heat of sucrose solutions is:40% sucrose sugar syrup: 0.6660% sucrose sugar syrup: 0.74However, note that it's in very strange units: Btu/lb . °F
Is total sugars a compound or element?
Total sugars refer to a group of compounds that include monosaccharides (such as glucose and fructose) and disaccharides (such as sucrose). They are not elements, but rather organic compounds composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
Why is it necessary for glucose to be pumped into the cell rather than diffusing in?
Glucose cannot pass through a phospholipid bilayer by simple diffusion.
Why you consume starch rather than glucose?
Starch is made up by glucose.We consume plant products.Plant store glucose as starch.
If you cut a sugar cube into smaller and smaller parts and you separate out one molecule what would you have?
the molecular formula for gluose is C6H1206. This means that there are 6 carbon atoms, 12 hydrogen atoms, 6 oxygen atoms. Table sugar is made from Sucrose: C12H22O11 ---- To look at this question from a philosophical point of view, this statement challenges the axiom that you can separate something into smaller and smaller parts and still have it retain its identity. This, however, is untrue when it comes to chemistry. As you separate a sugar cube into smaller and smaller cubes, it is still sucrose. But when you are left with one molecule and you separate it, it will no longer be sucrose. Rather, it will be two molecules of glucose (through a hydrolysis reaction). You can separate these glucose molecules further but they will cease to be glucose but become another substance. Therefore, the molecule could be said to be the limit for the retention of a macroscopic object's identity.
Why c12h22o11 is not considered a mineral?
A mineral is a naturally occurring substance that is solid and stable at room temperature, representable by a chemical formula, usually abiogenic, and has an ordered atomic structure- Definition from Wikipedia. Glucose and fructose are monosaccharide sugars. A monosaccharide is the smallest unit of sugar, mono meaning 1. Sucrose is commonly called table sugar and is a disaccharide. A disaccharide is a sugar that is made up of two sugar units, di meaning 2. Sucrose is produced as glucose and fructose are joined together by a condensation reaction. In the process a water molecule is eliminated. See the following equation. C6H12O6 + C6H12O6 => C12H22O11 + H2O glucose + fructose => sucrose + water This process does not occur spontaneously in nature. So we cannot define it as a mineral.
Is litmus neutral?
Litmus is not neutral, but rather an indicator that changes color in the presence of acidic or basic solutions. It turns red in acidic solutions and blue in basic solutions.
