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Does caramel have sugar?

A one word answer would be "YES". Depending on the kind of sugars meant, each kind of sugar has its own chemical formula. Table sugar is sucrose. It is made from two simpler sugars called glucose and fructose. Glucose is also sometimes called dextrose. Glucose is a little less sweet than sucrose, and fructose is a sweeter than sucrose. When sucrose is heated in the presence of an acid (such as vinegar or lemon juice), it breaks down into glucose and fructose, and the resulting syrup is sweeter than sucrose. The syrup is called "invert sugar". Simple sugars can join to form long chains. Glucose units can chain up to form amylose,the starch in corn. There are many different types of simple sugars, and they can combine into many more types of complex sugars. The backbone of DNA is a chain made of sugars.


What is the chemical formula for pure honey?

There is none. Honey is a mixture of several different compounds, including water, glucose, and fructose.


Is sugar a heterogeneous or a homogeneous mixture?

sugar (generally glucose) is a pure organic compound, not mixture.


Are disaccharides proteins?

Protiens are complex folded amino acid chains. Sugar in its pure form does not posess any amine groups, nor any amino acids. Sugars belong to a class of molecules called carbohydrates. These are chains of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen not possessing any amino or nitrogen groups. No. Protiens are not found in sugar.


What mixture is table sugar?

No, it's a pure compound (at least, it can be; sugar you buy at the grocery store might not be absolutely pure). Chemically speaking "sugar" is a class of compounds. There are lots of different sugars: sucrose (this is cane sugar, the grocery store kind), glucose (blood sugar), maltose (malt sugar), galactose and lactose (sugars found in milk), fructose (fruit sugar), and many others (you may have noticed a pattern: the names of sugars tend to end with -ose). Yes Sugar is a mixture

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Is sucrose a pure substance or a mixture?

Sucrose is an example of a pure substance. It is a disaccharide that can be broken down into glucose and fructose.


Does table sugar have carbohydrates and lipids?

Table sugar is sucrose a combination of glucose and fructose. It is pure carbohydrate.


Is a sugar mixture or pure substance?

A sugar is a pure substance. Sugar is the generic name for many compounds which are all pure substances. Fructose is a sugar. Glucose is a sugar. Lactose is a sugar. Glucose + Fructose --> Sucrose This is a chemical reaction between 2 sugars to make another, more complex sugar. This reaction if I remember correctly eliminates a water molecule as well as producing sucrose. The reaction occurs in certain plants and is done by an enzyme. Mixing fructose and glucose in a bowl will NOT form sucrose. Refer to the wikipedia article on sugar. It shows the molecular structure of sucrose. A substance cannot have a molecular structure if it is a mixture. It is a compound and compounds are pure substances.


Is sugar a pure compound?

Not exactly.Everyday sugar is sucrose, which is a disaccharide. That is a sugar which is made up of two sugar units: glucose and fructose. Glucose and fructose are monosaccharide sugars, which are the smallest unit of sugar. Glucose and fructose are both 6-carbon-sugars, or hexoses and have the same chemical formula, C6H12O6. But their molecular structures are different so that they have different properties: fructose is much sweeter than glucose.Sucrose is produced when one molecule each of glucose and fructose combine together in a condensation reaction, a process in which one molecule of water is removed.Thus glucose + fructose => sucrose + wateror C6H12O6 + C6H12O6 = C12H22O11 + H2O


Will glucose or sucrose under go more fermentation?

Sucrose is a double sugar and one molecule of sucrose is broken into one molecule of glucose and one molecule of fructose by the yeast (with and enzyme called invertase) prior to fermentation. From a pure chemical reaction perspective 1kg of can produce slightly more alcohol than 1kg of glucose, but given the right environment yeast can fully ferment both. Most brewers yeast prefers glucose to fructose so the glucose will be tend to be consumed first. Glucose is more expensive than sucrose so sucrose is a more cost effective choice.


How much glucose makes 1 gram sugar?

Glucose is, actually, a simple aldosic monosaccharide found in plants. Table sugar is also called sucrose and sucrose is made up of two glucose molecules.


Does caramel have sugar?

A one word answer would be "YES". Depending on the kind of sugars meant, each kind of sugar has its own chemical formula. Table sugar is sucrose. It is made from two simpler sugars called glucose and fructose. Glucose is also sometimes called dextrose. Glucose is a little less sweet than sucrose, and fructose is a sweeter than sucrose. When sucrose is heated in the presence of an acid (such as vinegar or lemon juice), it breaks down into glucose and fructose, and the resulting syrup is sweeter than sucrose. The syrup is called "invert sugar". Simple sugars can join to form long chains. Glucose units can chain up to form amylose,the starch in corn. There are many different types of simple sugars, and they can combine into many more types of complex sugars. The backbone of DNA is a chain made of sugars.


What is the molecular formula of-honey?

Honey does not have it's own molecular formula. However, the predominant components are: The monosaccharides fructose and glucose and the disaccharide sucrose, the major component. The molecular formula for those sugars are: Sucrose; C12H22O11, Glucose; C6H12O6 and Fructose; C6H12O6. As you can see the formula for Glucose and Fructose are identical although the molecules are conformationally very different. In a case where there is confusion, I would certain use the international standardised nomenclature: Iernational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry nomenclature, shortened to IUPAC. As such, the molecules follow the following nomenclature (name): Sucrose: Sucrose Glucose: 6-(hydroxymethyl)oxane -2,3,4,5-tetrol OR (2R,3R,4S,5R,6R)-6 -(hydroxymethyl)tetrahydro -2H-pyran-2,3,4,5-tetraol Fructose: (2R,3S,4R,5R)-2,5-Bis(hydroxymethyl)oxolane-2,3,4-triol Hope this helps.


What is the exact molecular formula of honey?

Honey is a mixture of organic and some inorganic compounds, hence is not a pure substance and has no "one" or "exact" molecular formula. A typical honey breakdown of composition is: * Fructose: 38.5% * Glucose: 31.0% * Sucrose: 1.0% * Water: 17.0% * Other sugars: 9.0% (maltose, melezitose) * Ash: 0.17% * Other: 3.38% Fructose and glucose have the same empirical molecular formula: C6H12O6, just a different isomer of it. Sucrose is just a disaccharide of glucose and fructose with an α (alpha) 1,2 glycosidic linkage. The other compounds such as ash contain a large multitude of other compounds, making honey a very mixed batch of organic chemicals, we refer colloquially to as "honey".


What is the chemical formula for pure honey?

There is none. Honey is a mixture of several different compounds, including water, glucose, and fructose.


Is sugar a heterogeneous or a homogeneous mixture?

sugar (generally glucose) is a pure organic compound, not mixture.


Are disaccharides proteins?

Protiens are complex folded amino acid chains. Sugar in its pure form does not posess any amine groups, nor any amino acids. Sugars belong to a class of molecules called carbohydrates. These are chains of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen not possessing any amino or nitrogen groups. No. Protiens are not found in sugar.