Fermentation may refer to:
- Fermentation (biochemistry), a metabolic process whereby electrons released from nutrients are ultimately transferred to molecules obtained from the breakdown of those same nutrients
- Ethanol fermentation, the production of ethanol for use in food, alcoholic beverage, fuel and industry
- Fermentation (food), the process of converting sugar to carbon dioxide and alcohol with yeast
- Fermentation (wine), the process of fermentation used in wine-making
- Fermentation (food), the process of converting sugar to carbon dioxide and alcohol with yeast
- Lactic acid fermentation, the biological process by which sugars such as glucose, fructose, and sucrose, are converted into cellular energy and the metabolic byproduct lactate
- Industrial fermentation, the breakdown and re-assembly of biochemicals for industry, often in aerobic growth conditions
- Fermentative hydrogen production, the fermentative conversion of organic substrate to biohydrogen manifested by a diverse group of bacteria
- Ethanol fermentation, the production of ethanol for use in food, alcoholic beverage, fuel and industry
Famous quotes containing the word fermentation:
“Two principles, according to the Settembrinian cosmogony, were in perpetual conflict for possession of the world: force and justice, tyranny and freedom, superstition and knowledge; the law of permanence and the law of change, of ceaseless fermentation issuing in progress. One might call the first the Asiatic, the second the European principle.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in the fat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds’ nests.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)
“Unquiet souls!
MIn the dark fermentation of earth,
In the never idle workshop of nature,
In the eternal movement,
Ye shall find yourselves again.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)