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fermentable
Part of speech: Adjective Usage examples "fermentable":- We have presumed the average quantity of fermentable matter at seventy- five pounds per quarter; this must be evidently on the best goods; this will give us a length of three barrels per quarter of malt of eight bushels, of twenty- five pounds per barrel, specific gravity. - "The American Practical Brewer and Tanner", Joseph Coppinger.
- If the matter of which this nation is composed be so very fermentable as these gentlemen describe it, leaven never will be wanting to work it up, as long as discontent, revenge, and ambition, have existence in the world. - "The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12)", Edmund Burke.
- From these considerations it became necessary accurately to determine the constituent elements of the fermentable substances; and for this purpose I did not make use of the compound juices of fruits, the rigorous analysis of which is perhaps impossible, but made choice of sugar, which is easily analysed, and the nature of which I have already explained. - "Critiques and Addresses", Thomas Henry Huxley.