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How to Make Perfume

By Janice VanCleave

Question: How can I make perfume? Answer: We often use the word perfume in a generic way, meaning any liquid applied to the body to give it a pleasant fragrance. But perfume (parfume) –what I call “Real” perfume is more concentrated and is generally more expensive than a cologne with the same fragrance. Another way […]

Filed Under: Chemistry Tagged With: mixture, perfume, soluble, solution

How Soluble is Table Sugar?

By Janice VanCleave

Table Sugar

What happens when you heat a sugar solution? When you add sugar to water, the sugar crystals dissolve and spread out evenly in the water.  Question? How much table sugar (sucrose) will dissolve in water? Answer: You can’t dissolve an infinite amount of sugar into a fixed volume of water. When as much sugar has […]

Filed Under: Chemistry Tagged With: soluble, sucrose

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