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Our cooking experiment: the study on using sugar and corn syrup to make sugar glass

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Title: Study on using sugar and corn syrup to make sugar glass Labor Division: Material preparation: Wu Siqi Measurement: Wang Jiayi & Wu Siqi & Dai Xiyang Experimental operation: Ding Xinying & Wang Jiayi Recording: Dai Xiyang Experiment designer: all group members Project title: Study on sugar glass Introduction: Being transparent and brittle, sugar glass is categorized as a kind of non-crystalline candy comprising mostly sucrose and slightly monosaccharide. It is made by mixing the original ingredients and heating to the hard crack stage (140-154 Celsius degree), resulting in 99% concentration of sugar. It has always been an excellent substitute for real glass in probably most action movie shooting, depicting remarkable combat scenes for hundreds of audiences. We wonder what influence that monosaccharide exerts on sucrose base. This project will present our research process on the question mentioned above, following the order of hypothesis, va...