Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Growing Sugar Crystals on a String

Fundamentally, the concept is simply. A supersaturated solution will crystalize spontaneously if it can. So what you do is dissolve sugar into boiling water (since boiling water can hold more dissolved solids than can cool water). Then you dip a string into the water, which provides a nice rough surface for sugar crystals to form, and you let the water cool, causing it to be supersaturated with sugar.

Yum!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It doesn't work ive tried it and mothing
SO WHAT"S THE DEAL WITH THAT?!

Anonymous said...

i HAve done it nothing I was going to throw IT AWAY so thanks a lot for my F on it!