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What does fermentation mean?

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  1. (biochemistry) Any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide
  2. A state of agitation or excitement; a ferment.
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All our diseases are explained on the basis of deposition and fermentation of waste substances.
By the third day the acetous fermentation had begun in all of them, and in a few more days each emitted an offensive odor.
If wines are kept in a warm cellar, an acetous fermentation will soon commence, and the result consequently will be vinegar.
This is the heart of the methode champenois process as the second fermentation and aging must take place in the bottle in which the wine is sold.
This ensures that during suckling milk is channeled directly to the abomasum bypassing wasteful ruminal fermentation.
The mixture is then removed from the fermentation drums whereafter it is placed in distilling kettles.

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