The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge.

Ridge, J. J. (John James), 1847-1908

Date:: 1879

Credit: The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$the sugar turns black and swells up ; it be- comes hot ancl gives off some steam. This black stuff is the Carbon which was in the sugar [The formula for this kind of sugar is C^HooOn {read thus, C twelve, H twenty-two, 0 eleven). You may say that there are of Carbon 12 atoms, and of Water (H2O) 11 atoms, since bLO multiplied by ll = H220n. The strong sulphuric acid has a very great affinity or attraction for water; so the water and the acid combine together, causing heat, and the Carbon is left alone.] You have now learned two ways in which sugar may be destroyed, namely, by burning it and by the action of strong sulphuric acid upon it. In the first case, the elements of the sugar are oxidized, producing Carbonic Acid and Water; in the second, they are simply torn asunder, forming Carbon and Water. There is a third method of destroying sugar more commonly followed than the other methods, namely, by eating it. c$