Concentrated sulfuric acid dehydrates common table sugar (sucrose), leaving a column of carbon ... enabling the students to watch the reaction without releasing the smoke into the room. After ...

Pour a layer of concentrated sulfuric acid ½” to ¾” thick on ... enabling the students to watch the reaction without releasing the smoke into the room. After approximately 3 to 5 minutes, the sugar ...

To the upper right we have very pure potassium chlorate, so much so that it bursts into flames when mixed with sugar and catalyzed with some sulfuric acid. [Mr. Home Scientist] produced the ...

By now, you have surely seen many images of planes dropping a red liquid on the Los Angeles fires. It's not just water. A ...

the sulfuric acid will soak into the paper, reaching the large compartment with the potassium chlorate and sugar mixture, causing a strongly exothermic reaction that ignites the paper. Yet as ...