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Title: sugar
Post by: vulcan2.0 on August 08, 2004, 06:24:27 PM

   What will sulfuric acid do to sugar? ??? I saw somewhere that when when sulfuric acid was poured on a chocolate bar  the chocolate turned into a gummy substance that the acid had a hard time dissolving. Would this really work? :borg:

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Post by: jdurg on August 08, 2004, 06:28:03 PM

I know that if you pour concentrated sulfuric acid over pure sugar, it will dehydrate the sugar and leave you with some steam and pure carbon.  

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Post by: vulcan2.0 on August 08, 2004, 06:31:35 PM

I see. But what about the chocolate?

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Post by: budullewraagh on August 08, 2004, 10:08:59 PM

the not so soluble compound was the carbon.

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Post by: vulcan2.0 on August 09, 2004, 09:55:36 PM

So in theory what I saw should work,no?

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Post by: Mitch on August 10, 2004, 10:19:25 PM

you tell us.

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Post by: vulcan2.0 on August 17, 2004, 07:17:43 PM

  I thought everything else in the chocolate would get dissolved and I would barely call carbon gummy.

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Post by: thallium chick on August 19, 2004, 11:00:27 AM

but isnt the chocolate mostly sugar anyway????

wouldnt it follow the same reaction as the sugar?

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Post by: Limpet Chicken on August 19, 2004, 01:39:52 PM

Chocolate is MOSTLY sugar, but there are other things in it too, in milk chocolate especially, there are things like cocoa butter, fats and oils, caffeine, and my very favourite constituent:phenylethylamine ;D

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Post by: vulcan2.0 on August 27, 2004, 05:14:46 PM

My question??

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Post by: vulcan2.0 on September 09, 2004, 05:03:09 PM

Helloooooooooooo?????