MAGMA
Mixture of sugar crystals and liquid (water, clarified juice, syrup, or molasses).
MASSECUITE
The mixture of crystals and mother liquor that comes out of the crystallization process.
MASSECUITE MIXER
Apparatus that sends massecuite to the centrifuges.
MELTER
Equipment that dissolves sugar.
MELTING
Another term for dissolving of sugar crystals.
MOLASSES
A thick syrup produced as a by-product of refining sugar. Molasses is the liquor that is left after the sugar crystals are separated from the mother liquor.
MOTHER LIQUOR
Syrup or liquid in which the crystals grow.