Word Meanings - FERMENTABILITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capability of fermentation.

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• FERMENTATION
  1. The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense , the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according
• FERMENTATION THEORY
  The theory which likens the course of certain diseases (esp. infectious diseases) to the process of fermentation, and attributes them to the organized ferments in the body. It does not differ materially from the accepted germ theory .
• CAPABILITY
  1. The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability. A capability to take a thousand views of a subject. H. Taylor. 2. Capacity of being used or improved.
• INCAPABILITY
  Want of legal qualifications, or of legal power; as, incapability of holding an office. (more info) 1. The quality of being incapable; incapacity. Suckling.
• TOP FERMENTATION
  An alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells are carried to the top of the fermening liquid. It proceeds with some violence and requires a temperature of 14-30º C. . It is used in the production of ale, porter, etc., and of wines high
• AMMONIACAL FERMENTATION
  Any fermentation process by which ammonia is formed, as that by which urea is converted into ammonium carbonate when urine is exposed to the air.
• BOTTOM FERMENTATION
  A slow alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells collect at the bottom of the fermenting liquid. It takes place at a temperature of 4º - 10º C. . It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.