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Offline kahynickel

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Fermentation
« on: September 29, 2014, 02:55:16 PM »
Fermentation is suitable for ethanol only. Can"t we use fructose or any other sugar for the preparation of other alcohol??
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Re: Fermentation
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2014, 06:32:57 PM »
Many fermentations do not produce ethanol at all.  It depends on the organism.  IMO fermentation is more usefully defined as the anaerobic catabolism of a carbohydrate.
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Re: Fermentation
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2014, 12:38:14 PM »
Also, many labs are working on creating genetically modified microbes that will ferment gasoline products. The work of Jay Keasling comes to mind.
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