Rock Candy Research Paper

Candy is made in variety ways and they are made in scientific method such as by boiling, cooling down and crystallizing. To make candies you always start with dissolving sugar in the boiling water so that sugar will change to sugar syrup. To begin with, the article mentions that if you want to make rock candy, you need to let the syrup cool down for long time so that it will change into big sugar crystals. However, if you want to produce fudge, you need to continuously stir the syrup after the cooling period because the sugar crystals form, they stay small and don’t increase in size too much. Also each grain of sugar consists of a small crystal made of an orderly arrangement of molecules called sucrose. Sucrose is an example of carbohydrate. The basic unit of carbohydrate is monosaccharide or simple sugar, such as glucose or fructose. The sugars can be linked in infinite ways. In sugar crystal, the sucrose molecules are placed in pattern that extends in all three dimensions, and all of these molecules are attracted to each other due to …show more content…
Only certain amount of od a solid can be dissolved in water at the given volume and temperature and if we add more amount, no more of that solid will dissolve. At this kind of stage, people say that solution is saturated. When we add a small amount of granulated sugar to the water, most of the sucrose molecules are leaving the sugar crystals, pulled away from the water molecules. You can also notice that some dissolved sucrose molecules are also crystallizing but other sucrose molecules are rejoining the sugar crystals.The reason is that sucrose molecules are constantly moving in the solution, so nothing prevents them from binding. Also by the temperature, sugar are more easily dissolved in