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solution if heated to about 200° F hese results of experiments 
conclusively prove that Mucor growing on soft and half-dry rice 
changes its albuminoid into diastase and its starch into dextrin 
and sugar. 
Hence Bakhar may be defined as a Mucor spore ferment, and 
fully-formed cake as malt. 
3) Brewin 
mit h 
longer time. The filament produced is filled with granular proto- 
plasm which soon collects into numerous minute parcels, Divi 
Torula. 
Torula, and may be easily mistaken for the latter, The only 
sure 
boiled rice. ucor-lorula will germinate there and cover the 
rice with a luxuriant growth of cottony filaments, while Yeast- 
i a M 
is an elliptical or oval cell, generally 0:002-0°003 mm. wide, and 
twice as long. When fully formed, it shows a round and com- 
Mucor-Torulx and of course Bacteria. As a consequence of intra- 
molecular respiration, temperature of the wort commences to rise 
ay 
clear. There igs dextrin, but generally no sugar; and the dregs 
ing almost simultaneous conversion of starch into maltose and the 
pe fae ste [have not followed the line of enquiry into 
Y possible symbiotic action of the Mucor species and Bacteri# 
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