Chem. [f. SORB1 + -ITE.] = SORBITOL.

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1867.  Chambers’s Encycl., IX. 187/2. Sorbin, or Sorbite…, may be obtained in colourless transparent rhombic octahedra.

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1868.  Fownes’ Chem. (ed. 10), 638. Sorbin, or Sorbite, is a crystallisable sugar existing in the juice of ripe mountain-ash berries.

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  Hence Sorbitic a.1 (See quot.)

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1868.  Watts, Dict. Chem., V. 353. Sorbite when heated gives off acid water, and is converted after some time … into a dark-red mass consisting of sorbitic acid.

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