• bleistift2@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    But sugar dissolves in cold water. It just takes a bit longer. This is 9th grade chemistry. At 20°C 203.9g sugar are soluble per 100ml of water.

    [Edit: Sorry, for the Americans here: At 68°F, 1 cup of sugar is soluble in 21/50 cups of water.]

    Wikipedia (de): Zucker cites Hans-Albert Kurzhals: Lexikon Lebensmitteltechnik. Volume 2: L – Z. Behr, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-86022-973-7, p. 723.

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      1 year ago

      And most of all, solubility being a function of the temperature, if you lower it the excess sugar will leave the solution and cristallize.

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      example: you don’t make a pitcher of kool-aid with hot water.

      however, adding sugar to the hot tea does work better than adding it after it’s already chilled.