sucrose

How Does the Rainbow Candy Experiment Work?

Tom Kuntzleman | Mon, 02/08/2021 - 07:10

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Have you seen the rainbow candy experiment? It's a very simple experiment that involves pouring water into a plate that has M&M's candies or Skittles arranged in a pattern. Very curious shapes of sharply divided regions form spontaneously. How does this happen?!

Charred Marshmallow Souffle

Tom Kuntzleman | Thu, 09/27/2018 - 13:51

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A new event called "The Mole"was unveiled at BCCE 2018. I told the story of how one of my students discovered how to make marshmallows spark in the microwave oven.

Dehydration of sucrose with sulfuric acid

Concentrated sulfuric acid is added to sucrose forming carbon, steam and sulfur dioxide.