Is making Sugar into sugar syrup a physical change or chemical change?

Answer 1

Unless you overdo it and carmelize it, it is a physical change. A typical process is to dissolve a large amount of sugar into hot water (physical change - the sugar is still sugar and the water is still water; they do not react. If the sugar-water is not syrupy enough, you can boil off some of the water (still a physical change).

If you overdo it though, you will begin to caramelize the sugar. If the sugar is sucrose, it breaks down into fructose and sucrose along with a host of other side reactions that condense, isomerize, dehydrate, fragment, polymerize, and otherwise chemically change the original sugar. Caramelization is definitely a chemical change, but it is not necessary to make syrup.

Answer 2

It is a chemical change. Making a new chemical is the very definition of chemical change.

Answer 3

It is a chemical change.

Answer 4

This is a chemical change.

Answer 5

Physical

Answer 6

Dissolving sugar in water is an example of a physical change. Here's why: A chemical change produces new chemical products. In order for sugar in water to be a chemical change, something new would need to result. A chemical reaction would have to occur.

Answer 7

Physical since it's still sugar, for it to be called chemical change is turning it to something new

Answer 8

chemical change