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Can you make salt from sugar?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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15y ago

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No. Salt is an element, so it cannot be made from other things. However, salt can be extracted from sea water by evaporating the water over heat, which leaves the salt behind.

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Salts are compounds resulting from reacting an acid with a base.. Table salt (NaCl), for example, can be made by reacting sodium hydroxide and hydrogen chloride

NaOH + HCl --> H2O + NaCl

Substituting acetic acid for the hydrochloric would create sodium acetate, another salt.

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15y ago

No.

The basic ingredients are not present.

Common salt is one atom of Sodium and one atom of Chlorine, bonded as Sodium Chloride.

Sugar, common sugar being Sucrose, is made entirely of Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen.

There is no Sodium and no Chlorine.

If you own a very large particle accelerator (and you don't) its possible to bombard some sugar with protons to transform some Carbon into Chlorine and Sodium, but it would be desperately expensive and the yield would be minimal - sub-microscopic.

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11y ago

yes you just need to know the right ingredients

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9y ago

Salts are the product of reactions between acids and bases.

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