Characteristics Of Sugar And Sucrose

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Sugar/Sucrose
a.Definition:
A sweet substance that can be obtained by various plants especially sugar canes and sugar beet (You can see more in how to obtained the sugar in characteristics). It can be use in numerous foods to make it sweeter and more tastier. Sugar is also a sweet and tasting carbohydrate.

b.Composition:
The sugar composition can be composed by two sugar units, a glucose and a fructose The formula is C12H22O11. To explain the formula for people who do not understand this scientific formula we are going to break it up. C stands for Carbon, H stands for Hydrogen, and O stands for Oxygen. The numbers stand for how many pure substances or elements are there. In this formula they are 12 Carbon, 22 Hydrogens and 11 Oxygen. They …show more content…

Characteristics
You can get sugar in sugar canes and sugar beets. You can get the substances my crushing the sugarcane and extracting from the sugar cane. By the sugar beet you extracted with water or others liquid by evaporation. Also you can extracted by purifying. Using this method about 170 metric tons of sugar each year, but it can be also seen as bad news because sugar is not good for you it can affect your health and risk of getting diseases especially on your liver, heart, and pancreas.

2. Oxidation a. Definition:
When during a reaction the loss of electrons by a molecule, atom or ion. Or more simply: a chemical reaction in which a substance loses electrons. Long before, chemist thought that oxidation was any chemical process in which a substance combined with oxygen, there's where it got the name, but what most people don’t know is that some of these reactions can occur without oxygen.

b. Oxidation State: Oxidation state indicates the levels of oxidation for an atom in a chemical compound. If all of the bonds of an atom were completely ionic then oxidation is the hypothetical charge of …show more content…

Reduction is a reaction in which a substance gains electrons. Reduction and Oxidation always go hand by hand because after the substance lost its electrons there has to be another substance to get them. What people mostly connect with oxidation is rust. Rust is when oxidation combines with oxygen. For example: metal rusts when iron combines slowly with water and oxygen.

d. Redox Reactions: Redox stands for reduction and oxidation. Keep in mind that reduction is gaining electrons and oxidation is losing. In redox reactions both happen because when a substance is oxidized there will always be an object gaining electrons and one losing. Redox reactions are those reactions in which the oxidation state of the reactant changes. This happens because in many reaction electrons are being transferred. These happen everyday all around us. From fire to laptop batteries, all are based on redox reactions.

Types:
Combination: These reactions combine elements to form a chemical compound, and within this oxidation and reduction occur together As usual, oxidation and reduction (redox) occur

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