Interestingly recent research is starting to show we have a hormonal response based on the perceived sweetness of what we eat. It's quite possible these alcohols and even things like Splenda, etc, are no better than actual sugar.
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It means that mechanically it can't bind with dextrose ("right handed" sugars) to form crystals. Think of the game Tetris, and how you sometimes get an "L" shaped piece - that's your dextrose, and it's mirror - that's the invert. They don't fit into the same spaces, so can never neatly "bind".
Corn syrup is an invert, and used to prevent sugar crystallization in things like caramel or even ice cream.
It takes a very small amount of an invert sugar in a recipe (maybe 10%, depending, but I forget) to prevent crystallization from starting.
Episode 25 of Good Eats, "Citizen Cane", has a great explanation by a food chemist, and Alton Brown demonstrates it while making caramel.
(I may misremember some of this, so any food chemists please clarify as needed).
Though odds are highest for carbon-based, simple from it's abundance.
Thanks for this - a reasoned, easy-to-grasp explanation of missions, without a lot of technical jargon.
It's this kind of writing that's needed (from any technical field) for those not in that field to understand it. I'm in IT, and work diligently to provide this kind of explanation to decision-makers. It's not easy, when in your head you see all the "but this" at the technical level. We have to sacrifice high-resolution detail to provide a "good enough" image for people to comprehend. Sometimes that means being "technically inaccurate" - which then gets unnecessarily criticised.
I wish magazines like Scientific American (which has seriously gone down hill) wrote like this more.
God I hate compressed file support in explorer.
I even disable zip support. Let me use my own app for that.
Water
Wait, no, electricity to run my fridge, convection oven and stove. 😁
Yea, from what I've read attractive folks hold our attention better, and attractive women do more so, for both men and women.
Something in the way we're wired.
Wow, I never made that connection
And we already do this - every culture has a form, some more ingrained than others.
During WWII (and the Cold War), Allied analysts, spies and diplomats found learning Russian particularly difficult for just this reason.
Are the links you added from the article or some others you found?
What kind of douchebag do you have to be to behave like this?
How many languages do you speak perfectly?
OP's English is pretty damn good.
Another hero we didn't know we needed.
Have my grateful uovote.