Note 54 — SUGAR.
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It is of interest in this connection to note the recent discovery of a coal-tar derivative, benzoyle sulphonic imide, C6H4 <COSO> NH, commercially known as “saccharine.” This body possesses about 230 times the sweetening power of cane sugar. It bears, however, no near chemical relation to the sugars, which, for the greater part, constitute hexatomic alcohols. See Amer. Chem. Jour., i. p. 170, and vol. ii. p. 181; also, Jour. Soc. Chem. Indus., No. 2, vol. vi. p. 75.