The Chemical Level Of Organization - Chapter questions - Problem 10F

The polar water molecules are attracted to the polar sucrose molecules. The molecules bind easily and because of volume and energy differentials the water molecules are able to tear the sucrose crystals apart and surround them with water shells that prevent them from reuniting. Sucrose or table sugar is made up of glucose and fructose. Each sucrose molecules have 12 carbon atoms, 22 Hydrogen atoms and 11 oxygen atoms. The the O-H bonds in sucrose are non-polar with the hydrogen ends being slightly positive and the oxygen ends of the bond being slightly negative. Water also has O-H bonds which are polar, . The positive ends of the water molecule attach to the negative end of the sucrose molecule.. Because the water O-H bonds are slightly more polar than the O-H bond on the sucrose molecule, the water molecules are able to draw of an separate the molecules of the sucrose crystals. This results in solution of the sucrose . Further, the water molecules surround the separated sucrose molecules making it difficult for them to reform keeping them in solution