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 but a few, referring for instance to mountain ranges or groups of islands, are plural (e.g. "Hebrides"). Typically, English proper nouns are not preceded by an article ("the" or "a") or other determiners (not, for instance, "a John", "the Kennedy", or "many Hebrides"). Occasionally, what would otherwise be regarded as a proper noun is used as a common noun, in which case a plural form and a determiner are possible (for instance "the three Kennedys", "the new Gandhi"). Current linguistics makes a distinction between proper nouns and proper names; but this distinction is not universally observed, and sometimes it is