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What do you mean by inversion of cane sugar ?

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Sucrose is a disaccharides which is hydrolysis gives an equimolar monture of D-(+)-glucose and D-(-)- fructose.
Sucrose in dextrotatory while the mixture obtained an hydrolysis is laevorotatory this is called invertion of cane sugar. The mixture so obtained in called invert sugar.
`underset("Sucrose")(C_(12) H_(22) O_(11)) + H_2 O overset(H_3 O^+ "orinvertose")to underset("D-(+)-Glucose")(C_(6) H_(12) O_6) + underset("D-(-)-Fructose")(C_6 H_(12) O_6)`
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