In this post, I shall show you how to dehydrate sucrose (or table sugar).
Pure sulfuric acid, or H2SO4, is very hydrophilic, which means it is attracted to water molecules. In other words, it absorbs a lot of water.
On the other hand, sucrose has a chemical formula of C12H22O11, which can also be "split" into C12 and H22O11. H22O11 is "equivalent" to 11 H2O, so when the sulfuric acid "absorbs" these "water" from the sucrose, only carbon is left.
Therefore, if you mix high purity sulfuric acid with sucrose, you will get a black mass of carbon left.
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Video that demonstrates this experiment (and further talks about sulfuric acid):
This video contains Portugese subtitles (but English audio), so you can click the "CC" in the video and click Translate and choose English. It give you roughly the meaning of what the person (people) is/are saying.
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