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.
Sugar comes from sugarcane, which is perennial grass that grows in tropical or temperate climates around the world. Sugarcane is comprised of 70 percent water. Other parts of sugarcane include fiber, soluble sugar and non-sugars. It is a two-step process to turn sugarcane into refined white sugar.