Dehydration Of Sugar

Sugar (a carbohydrate) is dehrydrated with concentrated
sulfuric acid. Since a carbohydrate was once considered just
hydrated carbon, if you remove the water, carbon would be left more...
over. The acid rips the water out of the sugar and the heat
generated by this reation causes the water to turn to steam. A
black mass of carbon is produced.



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