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Describe the five steps in the conversion of corn to ethanol.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Although once used for work, most horses in the United States are now used for ___________________ _.
 
  Fill in the blank(s) with correct word



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Answer to Question 1

1 . milling or grinding of the grain into a fine powder or corn meal
2 . liquefying of the corn meal with water and heating
3 . conversion of the starch to glucose using enzymes
4 . fermentation of the glucose by yeast to produce ethyl alcohol
C6H12O6 --- 2 C2H5OH + 2 CO2
5 . separation and concentration of the ethanol from water and other impurities using distillation and other separation technology

Answer to Question 2

recreation





 

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