The "Greenhouse Effect" Is Predicted to

question 101

Multiple Choice

The "greenhouse effect" is predicted to

• A)lead to the next ice age.
• B)raise global temperature.
• C)pollute the oceans.
• D)break the edifice complex by the turn of the century.

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Definitions:

Reducing Sugar

Any sugar that is capable of acting as a reducing agent because it has a free aldehyde group or a free ketone group.

α-D-Fructofuranose

An isomer of fructose where the furanose ring form predominates, characterized by its specific configuration at the anomeric carbon.

Methyl Glycoside

Glycosides formed by the reaction of a sugar with methanol, characterized by a methoxy group replacing the glycosidic hydroxyl group of the sugar.

Mutarotation

The change in optical rotation due to the change in equilibrium between two anomers of a sugar solution over time.