What Invention Transformed Sugar Refining,pottery Making,and Textile Making

question 49

Multiple Choice

What invention transformed sugar refining,pottery making,and textile making?

• A) The cotton gin
• B) The water frame
• C) The printing press
• D) The steam engine

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Definitions:

Haworth Structure

A method for representing the cyclic structure of monosaccharides with a simple three-dimensional perspective, showing the spatial configuration of each carbon atom and its attached groups.

β-D-Ribofuranose

A sugar molecule that is a component of RNA, featuring a five-membered ring structure.

Stereoisomeric Aldohexoses

Different spatial arrangements of atoms in aldohexose carbohydrates, leading to different physical and chemical properties despite having the same molecular formula.

Epimers

Stereoisomers that differ in configuration at exactly one stereogenic center and have the same molecular formula.