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How to Make a Sugar Snake with Sulfuric Acid and Sugar

Name: How to Make a Sugar Snake with Sulfuric Acid and Sugar
Uploaded: 2012-07-03T21:49:43.000Z
Description: Sugar (a carbohydrate) is dehydrated with concentrated sulfuric acid. Since a carbohydrate was once considered just hydrated carbon, if you remove the water, carbon would be left over. The acid rips the water out of the sugar and the heat generated by this reaction causes the water to turn to steam. A black mass of carbon is produced.

By WonderHowTo

Apr 29, 2010 04:36 PM

Jul 3, 2012 09:49 PM

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

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