White sugar White sugar White sugar, also called table sugar, granulated sugar or regular sugar, is the sugar commonly used in North America and Europe, made either of beet sugar or cane sugar, which has undergone a refining process. The refining completely removes the molasses and makes the white sugar actually sucrose (with a purity higher than 99.7%), whose molecular formula is CHO. The origin of the sugar thus produced is therefore chemically indistinguishable (sugar cane or sugar beet): it's however possible to identify its origin through a carbon-13 analysis (similar to radiocarbon dating used in archeology). From a chemical and nutritional
Proper noun observed but not rigorously. When the distinction is made, proper nouns are limited to single words only (possibly with "the"), while proper names include all proper nouns (in their primary applications) as well as noun phrases such as "the United Kingdom", "North Carolina", "Royal Air Force", and "the White House". Proper names can have a common noun or a proper noun as their head; "the United Kingdom", for example, is a proper name with the common noun "kingdom" as its head, and "North Carolina" is headed by the proper noun "Carolina". Especially as titles of works, but also as nicknames