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How can you tell apart sugar or salt?

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What physical properties would you use to tell salt and sugar apart?

Salt would have a more bitter taste. Salt would hurt more if put in a wound. Raw sugar has, browner, larger crystals then salt and white sugar.


How does Particles of table salt and table sugar differ when they dissolve in water?

Salt breaks apart into ions. Table sugar does not, the table sugar stays as a molecular compound.


Under a microscope you can tell the difference between sugar and salt due to their?

Sugar and salt have different crystalline structures. Salt has a six sided shape, where sugar is more of a hexagonal prism with sharp edges.


What list of items water will dissolve other than salt sugar?

Anything that is bonded by an ionic or polar-covalent bond.


How can you tell kosher salt and epsom salts apart?

Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate heptahydrate and kosher salt is sodium chloride.


How can you tell the difference between salt or sugar without tast?

There are two ways to tell the difference between salt and sugar without tasting either one of them. One way is to place them separately in separate pans, and cook them. Sugar has a higher boiling point than does salt. When heated sugar will melt into a brown syrupy sustains Salt will not melt. Another way is to pour them on a slug. Salt melts the skin of the slug, but sugar does not.


Salt or sugar how can you find out without tasting it?

You can tell the difference by the color salt is a little lighter but you cant tell that much. Salt is a cystal with acid. Sugar isn't. If you have a microscope lying around then look at the characteristics and see which one you think it is.


Can water be used to separate salt from sugar why or why not?

A mixture of salt and sugar can be separated by using an organic solvent to dissolve the sugar. When the sugar is dissolved, it can be separated by filtering the salt from the liquid sugar,then recrystallise both solutions to from back their original crystals.


How can you tell sugar from salt and flour?

Taste them or you won't know!as they all have diff taste


Which crisyels grow faster salt crystals or suger crystals?

salt suger = sugar salt suger = sugar salt suger = sugar salt suger = sugar


What properties would you use to tell salt and pepper apart?

Taste, color, consistency, and chemical composition.


How do you tell salt and pepper shakers apart?

Pepper shakers will have more holes than salt (it's logical: it's worse to oversalt a dish).