1 It is aluminum potassium sulfate. 2  This is the type of alum that you find in the grocery store for pickling and in baking powder. 3  It is also used in leather tanning, as a flocculant in water purification, as an ingredient in aftershave and as a treatment to fireproof textiles. 4  It's chemical formula is KAl(SO 4) 2.
1 The sugar that is white sugar is the same as that in raw sugar and treacle â but raw sugar and treacle contain other things which make them a brown colour and taste different.  Sugar is made from sugar beet or sugar cane by refining it. This is done in a factory called a refinery.
The kind of sugar we usually think about - table sugar - is called sucrose. Sugar is made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms. It's the way these atoms are connected that makes each type of carbohydrate different. In each molecule of table sugar there are: 12 carbon atoms, 22 hydrogen atoms, and 11 oxygen atoms. The black stuff is called burnt sugar! But seriously, this is what happens when you heat or burn things that contain carbon. It reacts with oxygen and oxidizes (burns).