Whether you’re creating colorful sugar crystals or experimenting with sugar’s chemical properties, these fun tricks will amaze you every time. Perfect for anyone looking to explore science in ...

Pour sugar into any size beaker (depending on the size of the room) to a depth of 1”. Place beaker on a heat insulating mat. Pour a layer of concentrated sulfuric acid ½” to ¾” thick on top of the ...

Aside from adding sweetness, sugar helps baked goods retain their moisture, feeds yeast, stabilizes egg whites, prevents the gluten bonds in flour from over-toughening during the baking process ...

The sugar molecules are attracted and held together in a crystal by these opposite polar areas. Water molecules arrange themselves around the sucrose molecules according to opposite polar areas. The ...

Table sugar is made of sucrose, a disaccharide produced through the chemical reaction of glucose with fructose (Fig. 1). Natural sugars occur most plentifully in fruits, which is what gives them their ...

DNA and RNA are composed of nucleotides that are linked to one another in a chain by chemical bonds, called ester bonds, between the sugar base of one nucleotide and the phosphate group of the ...