Dehydration of sugar by conc. Sulfuric acid

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All content here meant to be Educational,None of the above experiment should be repeated on your own.

It is very common reaction which demonstrates the dehydrating and oxidizing properties of conc. Sulfuric acid. Sugar is first dehydrated to elemental Carbon and steam, Carbon is further oxidized to Carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide also produced by reduction of SO4 2-.


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[kingkongtiger]

nice one

High school chemistry

[Cforchemistry]

Those were the days : )

[KMnO4dalla]

cool! nice vid 5*

[Cforchemistry]

Thanks

[burgerchef618]

this is soooo cool:)

[Q8hammer1994]

ok see im doing a project on how to reduce carbon i just need an eperiment to reduce carbon

[bellinivernon]

Exelente ! ; gracias ...!

[Excitotoxin]

Excellent video.