Question

How can you obtain sugar crystals. Explain?

Answer 1

Step 1

Heat 2 cups water over medium heat in a saucepan until it comes to a boil.

Step 2

Stir 4 cups sugar into the boiling water with a wooden spoon until the sugar dissolves and the solution turns clear. Continue stirring until the solution again reaches a rolling boil.

Step 3

Remove the saucepan from the burner, and pour the solution into a heavy tempered jar, such as a canning jar.

Step 4

Tie the heavy nut to the end of the string, and tie the other end to the pencil.

Step 5

Speed up the formation of the sugar crystals by dipping the string into the sugar solution, coating it with sugar and allowing it to dry out for 24 hours. When the string is suspended in the solution, it gives the sugar crystals in the solution something to attach to. Balance the pencil across the top of the jar, and drop the heavy nut into the solution, straightening the string.

Step 6

Locate the jar in a warmer part of the house, such as near a heating vent, and also position a fan to blow over surface of the jar to continue to speed up the formation of the crystals. Warmth and moving air speed up evaporation of the water in the solution, causing the crystals to precipitate or form into crystals faster than normal. Make sugar crystals in three to five days instead of the usual seven days or more.

Answer 2

Tie cotton or wool string around a Popsicle stick or a pencil. ...

Heat a small amount of water to boiling. ...

When no more sugar will dissolve in the water, let the sugar solution cool a little bit.

Add food coloring of your choice to the solution. ...

Pour the solution in the jar.

hope it helps...