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"Tom Kunich" > wrote:

> "woodjutt" > wrote in message
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> >
> > Chemical reactions within yeast are facilitated by enzymes, which are
> > large organic catalysts. Each enzyme has an "optimal temperature range"
> > -- a temperature range at which it performs best. For many enzymes, the
> > optimal temperature range is what we would perceive as warm -- about the
> > same as normal internal human body temperature.

>
> For the first three days it was bubbling and boiling away like crazy and
> then went dead when I had that cool night. But after it warmed up again it
> took off. Only this time I put a child heating pad under it so that it
> wouldn't cool down at night.


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