How to Hydrogenate Sugar

Sugar is a sweet product that can be taken from cane plants or beets. Prices of sugar steadily dropped as it became less of a luxury and more of a commodity since its discovery by Western Europeans around the year 1099. The European Union, Brazil and India typically produce most of the product, which is consumed in millions of tons around the world. Sugar, or sucrose, breaks down into glucose and fructose after it is hydrogenated.

Things You'll Need

  • 100-millimeter flask
  • Distilled water
  • Sucrose
  • Weight scale
  • Plastic spatula
  • Stopper
  • Milliliter (mL) dropper
  • 3M Hydrochloric acid (HCL)
  • 50-mL graduated cylinder
  • Sink
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Instructions

    • 1

      Fill a 100-mL flask halfway with distilled water; the water line, or meniscus, should be at the "50" when you're finished.

    • 2

      Set the sucrose on the weight scale, and measure out .324 grams of it. Scrape it into the distilled-water flask carefully with the plastic spatula when finished, and allow its particles to dissolve into the water. Put a stopper over the flask.

    • 3

      Suck out 30 mL of the HCL solution with the mL dropper and squeeze it into the 50-mL graduated cylinder.

    • 4

      Combine the graduated cylinder's HCL with the flask's distilled water and sucrose by gently pouring the HCL into the flask over a sink. Put a stopper over the flask when you're finished pouring.

    • 5

      Shake the contents of the flask up-and-down gently to combine the contents; the process of hydrolysis takes place during the shaking. Once you're finished, hydrogenation of the sucrose creates glucose and fructose in the flask.

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