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  2. Sugar beet - Wikipedia

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    Sugar beets grow exclusively in the temperate zone, in contrast to sugarcane, which grows exclusively in the tropical and subtropical zones. The average weight of a sugar beet ranges between 0.5 and 1 kg (1.1 and 2.2 lb). Sugar beet foliage has a rich, brilliant green color and grows to a height of about 35 cm (14 in).

  3. Beta vulgaris - Wikipedia

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    Altissima Group, [12] sugar beet (Syn. B. v. subsp. v. convar. vulgaris var. altissima) [13] - The sugar beet is a major commercial crop due to its high concentrations of sucrose, which is extracted to produce table sugar. It was developed from garden beets in Germany in the late 18th century after the roots of beets were found to contain sugar ...

  4. History of sugar - Wikipedia

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    Sugar was a luxury in Europe until the early 19th century, when it became more widely available, due to the rise of beet sugar in Prussia, and later in France under Napoleon. [56] Beet sugar was a German invention, since, in 1747, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf announced the discovery of sugar in beets and devised a method using alcohol to extract ...

  5. Beet Sugar Factory (Glendale, AZ) - Wikipedia

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    The building opened as a beet sugar factory in 1906 started by Glendale, Arizona founder William J. Murphy.The factory ran into a number of issues throughout its run, from needing to change water sources to wash beets, the amount of water necessary to grow sugar beets, low amounts of sugar being produced from the beets, and insect infestations in the beet crops. [2]

  6. Franz Karl Achard - Wikipedia

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    Achard taught classes to have a large number of sugar beet growers and the specially developed sugar beets became available for everyone. Achard described the sugar beet as, "one of the most bountiful gifts which the devine munificence had awarded to man on earth." [6] In 1794, Achard built an optical telegraph between Spandau and Bellevue.

  7. How To Keep Your Brown Sugar Soft - AOL

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    The refined sugars in your pantry comes from the juice of boiled sugarcane or sugar beets. In the refinement process of sugarcane, you get sugar crystals and molasses, a bitter but flavorful by ...

  8. Beta (plant) - Wikipedia

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    Sea beet (Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima) Beta is a genus in the flowering plant family Amaranthaceae. The best known member is the common beet, Beta vulgaris, but several other species are recognised. Almost all have common names containing the word "beet".

  9. Crowd crush kills 35 children at funfair in Nigeria, police say

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    Nigeria, a West African nation home to more than 236 million people, has seen several deadly crowd crushes in recent years. In February, the Nigeria Customs Service confirmed that an unspecified ...