Editing Sucrose (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''sucrose'' was coined in 1857, by the English chemist [[William Allen Miller|William Miller]]<ref>William Allen Miller, ''Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical'', Part III. Organic Chemistry (London, England: John W. Parker and son, 1857), [https://books.google.com/books?id=cuMHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA52 pages 52 and 54] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424193600/https://books.google.com/books?id=cuMHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA52 |date=2017-04-24 }}.</ref> from the [[French language|French]] {{lang|fr|sucre}} ("sugar") and the generic chemical suffix for sugars ''[[-ose]]''. The abbreviated term ''Suc'' is often used for ''sucrose'' in scientific literature.

The name ''saccharose'' was coined in 1860 by the French chemist [[Marcellin Berthelot]].<ref>Marcellin Berthelot, ''Chimie organique fondée sur la synthèse'' (Paris, France: Mallet-Bachelier, 1860),  [https://books.google.com/books?id=7AtQYV5FlVwC&pg=PA254 pp. 254–55] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627013507/https://books.google.com/books?id=7AtQYV5FlVwC&pg=PA254 |date=2014-06-27 }}.</ref> Saccharose is an obsolete name for sugars in general, especially sucrose.