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.
Table sugar is made up of equal amounts of the simple sugars glucose and fructose, which are joined together by chemical bonds. Starches and fiber are made up of many simple sugars joined together chemically. Any carbohydrate that is made up of more than two simple sugars is referred to as a polysaccharide.