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noun

amylase

any of a group of proteins found in saliva and pancreatic juice and parts of plants; help convert starch to sugar

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Six example sentences with amylase, each labelled with its topic.

  • Brewers hold the mash near sixty-five degrees so amylase has time to work before the boil kills it.

    Cooking

  • A blood test showing raised amylase sent the patient for imaging of the upper abdomen the same afternoon.

    Medicine

  • Chewing a cracker slowly turns it faintly sweet, a classroom demonstration of amylase acting long before swallowing.

    Science

  • Sports drinks skip starch because amylase needs time to work, and a runner wants sugar that is ready immediately.

    Fitness

  • Payen and Persoz isolated amylase from malt in 1833, calling it diastase, the first enzyme ever described.

    History

  • Detergent makers add amylase so the wash loosens dried porridge and gravy at low temperatures.

    Technology

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