Science with Sweets

Today we have had some fun with glacier fruits and made some stained glass biscuits and attempted to blow bulbs like proffessional glass blowers.

We followed a biscuit dough recipe and cut out our shapes and filled them with crushed glacier fruits, and with the left over sweets we tried to create blown glass spheres.

After seeing The King Of Random's video (insert link here) on blowing jolly ranchers, an American sweet similiar to glacier mints/fruits, we melted our sweets and wrapped the now melted sweets around our reuseable straws. We were not very successful since we kept on bursting but we could see how the experiment would have worked with more practice. 

I have been looking at bonds in science and was wondering how the bonds in sugar. So we found a Candy making website to see how candy is made and the different bonds.

The bonds between the molecules in sucrose (what sugar is made up of) are covalent bonds, which means the two atoms share one electron. Shown by this diagram:

You can also see why carbohydrates are named "carbohydrates" because they are made up of carbon hydrogen and oxygen. (Small science facts).

Our Candy doesn't have any crystals, which gives it it's transparent appearance, meaning that it does not have a regular structure or pattern.