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.
Sucrose, or table sugar, is a common type of sugar made of glucose and fructose. It is a disaccharide and a simple carbohydrate. Sucrose is a crystal at room temperature that can be caramelized by heating.Sucrose is found naturally in foods, but it is also added to processed foods for preservation and flavor.ugarcane and sugar beets are the two plants that are used to make most sucrose, or refined table sugar. Hot water is used to extract sucrose. The extract can then be concentrated into syrup and then crystallized to make table sugar.