Capable of hydrolyzing or otherwise breaking down a sugar molecule. Origin: saccharo-_ G. Lysis, loosening. Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page. This page was last modified on 3 October 2005, at 21:16.This page has been accessed 14,911 times. What links here | Related changes | Permanent link.
There is a unit for measuring the distance from the earth to the sun known as an astronomical unit. This is 149,597,870,691Km (~93 million miles) plus or minus 30Km. You can use an astronomical unit to compare distances against the distance between the earth and sun e.g the distance between the sun and Mars is 1.52 AU.
The sun is approximately 1 astronomical unit (AU), or 149,597,870.7 kilometers (92,955,807.3 mi) away from the Earth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ast... 1 astronomical unit (au), which is by definition the average distance between the Sun and the Earth :). 1 au [math]\approx[/math] 150 million kilometers [math]\approx[/math] 93 million miles.