Laboratory Report: Making Rock Candy

10/02/2015
Jidd, Vorawan Chanvorawit
Nice, Sirirat Jittakajornkait
June, Thanatcha Jantanapongpun
Achi, Achima Sayamnikorn

Introduction:
Sugar has four properties
which are; sweetness, solubility,
caramelization and crystallization.
Many atoms are arranged in the
ring structure. The difference ring
structure forms the difference
properties of sugar. Furthermore,
crystallization is the additional
crystal form on top of another. It begins with sugar
particles are added to boiling water to create
supersaturated solution. This process causes by the sugar
solution boils and then water will evaporate. After that,
the crystal left behind the container and forms a beautiful
sugar crystal. In this experiment, we did some
crystallization and we hope to find out how does sugar be
the crystallization.

Purpose: The purpose of this experiment is to find out

how crystallization of sugar is formed.

Materials:
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1 cup of water
3 cup of sugar
strings
pot

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glass
chopsticks
food coloring
food flavour

Procedure:
1. Prepare pot, 1 cup of water, 2 cups of sugar,
strings, glass, chopsticks and food coloring or flavour
2. Boil 1 cup of water in the pot and pour into
beaker
3. Add 3 cups of sugar into beaker
4. Stir it until the sugar dissolved
5. Put string into water
6. Roll string in extra sugar
7. Prepare food coloring or flavour into a glass
8. Pour mixture into each glass
9. Put string around chopsticks and dip it. Make
sure that it doesnt touch any side of the glass
10.
Let sugar grow on the string for a week
11.
Break sugar to get the rock candy out

Results:

Analyzing Results
The properties of sugar differ among the arrangement
of ring structure. There are four differences properties
including sweetness, caramelization, solubilization, and
crystallization. Sweetness depends on the the sugars
molecules. It has many factors such as concentration,
consistency, temperature, and pH level. Caramelization
occurs when we heat the sugar and then the water
molecules will leave. It forms new molecules which is
called carbon as well as our sugar will have brown color.
Solubility is the sugar that can easily to be soluble in
water. Because it consists of many hydroxyl groups(OH). If
the sugar(solute) is more than normally hold on that
temperature is called supersaturated. Crystallization is
formed after we boiled the sugar with water and then the
water will evaporate and the crystal with left behind.
Moreover, We looked for one of the property of sugar
which is crystallization. We tried to find out how
crystallization formed after making a mixture of rock
candy by boiling sugar and water. We had to wait for a
week to let it evaporate and left the crystal-liked sugar,
rock candy. Additionally, Our group has a different results
product and color since we have many food colorings so
we make four different color which are pink by Nice,
purple by Achi, blue by Jidd and green by June. Achis has
the least sugar stuck in. Nices and Jidds have same
amount of sugar stuck in but Nice has more a little bit of
sugar. Junes rock candy has the most sugar stuck in the
string. Its formed perfectly, sparkle and has a shape like a
rock candy in the stores. On the other hand, June is the
one who most successful in this lab not only our group but
also all of the class. At first when she did the lab, the
string that she made was too short. So she did the new
one and made extra sugar stuck in the string enough to

make sugar grow successfully and this is the most

important part of how to grow a rock candy. In the same
way, We found that the most important step in this lab
was to make the extra sugar stuck in the string so much
enough the let it grow by rolling it. Next time, when we
did this lab again, we will do all of the step carefully
especially when we roll the string on extra sugar so it will
grow much more that this time and more successful.

Conclusion:
In summary, We did rock candies in this experiment to
figure out the growing of crystallization in sugar which is
one of the four properties of sugar. We did a lot of things
in this lab. We had to boil water and mix it with sugar and
that mixture is the one that we use for making rock candy.
Next, we tied the string with chopsticks and stuck it with
extra sugar. This is the most important step in making a
rock candy since the extra sugar that stuck on the string

has a job to make it grow. Since our group have many food
coloring so we make four different color. Then, we pour
mixture to our own glass and put the string in. At first, we
cut the string too short so we had to make a new one.
After we put the string into each glass, we have to wait
for a week to let a rock candy grow. We also have to
discard some of extra sugar that float on the glass.
Finally, we got our own rock candy. There are four color
rock candies in our group, pink, purple, blue and green.
The purple one has the least sugar stuck in. This might
happen because when we roll an extra sugar, it might not
stuck enough to let a rock candy grow. And the green one
is the most successful in the class. It grew successfully
that the shape is like the ones in stores. We found that
when an extra sugar is wet because many people use it,
the string might get an extra sugar less since it too wet to
stuck in. However, if we always change an extra sugar into
a dry new one to roll, it might stuck in the string as we
expected.