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How does sugar (sucrose) dehydrate when mixed with sulfuric acid?

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How does sugar (sucrose) dehydrate when mixed with sulfuric acid?

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  1. First you have sugar which is C12H22O11 If you break this down you can imagine it being in two parts - 12C  and 11H2O

    Concentrated sulphuric acid is a very powerful dehydrating agent - it readily absorbs water.

    Therefore if you pour concentrated sulphuric acid onto sugar, the acid strips the water from the sugar molecule, leaving behind the carbon

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