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food burns because it endures a chemical change, which is why food can be cooked. When food is exposed to to much heat or to heat for long enough, the food will continue this chemical change and burn.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoNo (and a bit yes).
Generally granulated sugar needs an Oxygen donor (oxidator) like ozone, peroxides or perchlorate (air isn't reactive enough). Besides of that it needs ignition.
So you even cannot plainly light your sugar lumbs to burning.
However (yes), if it is finely powdered (to dust) then it might be explosive when mixed with air in right ratio even by sparking (static) electricity (sugar dust explosion)
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∙ 13y agoHeat is a form of energy. Sugar is matter and has molecules linked together by molecular bonding. Heat supplies energy that breaks the bonds; molecules gain kinetic energy when subjected to heat, move more and more randomly with every marginal unit of heat energy and finally the sugar melts, thus the reaction.
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∙ 13y agoSugar burns because it is organic. Most orgainc molecules will burn and all will do so at high enough temperatures. Sugar is basically CxHyOz and CHO are all fuels for combustion. The best way of making organic compounds not flammable, is to react with halogens. CCl4 is very difficult indeed to burn.
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∙ 13y agoBecause it decomposed into volatile compounds, they combusted and set the rest of the compound on fire.
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∙ 16y agoIt turns into caramel.
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∙ 14y agoSugar does burn.
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It's either obey the law of conservation of mass, causing new matter to be created or it is an execption to the law of conservation of mass.
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Yes, almost all sugar can burn because of the chemicals inside it. Caramel is burnt sugar... Why is it so sweet??? Answer, because it is made of burnt sugar!!!!
What form when you burn sugar?
Caramel.
Can you burn sugar?
Yes, unfortunately.
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white sugar burn faster than brown sugar
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Is sugar inflammable?
Yes, like all hydrocarbons. It's a bit hard to light, but it will burn (and make one heckuva mess, too).
What element do you get when you heat sugar?
I think it's no element at all when you burn sugar, it's burnt sugar.
