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Unread 01/16/2018, 01:01 PM   #8
Tripod1404
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As a side note, it is pretty easy to contaminate glucose solutions. You would either need to prepare it fresh from powdered dextrose for each use, or autoclave the solution and keep and work with it sterile. I am pretty sure it would get contaminated anyhow. Even under laboratory conditions with filtered air, gloves, coats and etc, I cant keep glucose solutions sterile more than ~6 moths. Under "household" conditions it will get contaminated pretty fast.

This is probably one of the main reasons why there are no commercial solutions for dosing complex sugars. Stuff like ethanol, methanol, acetic acid are intrinsically sterile (although some bacteria can grow in acetic acid).

Plus there is the issue of dosing. You cannot directly use the same dose used for ethanol, methanol or acetic acid. Those either contain 2 carbons (EtOH and Ac) and 1 carbon (MeOH), glucose contain 6 carbons. And metabolisms of essentially all organisms are built open using glucose. So it might rapidly cause bacterial bloom if dosing is wrong.



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