Help me pretty plz

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  lovely_allie

  
  March 18th 2010, 12:22 pm

• Organic chem
  
  In making candy or sugar syrups, sucrose is boiled in water with a little acid, such as lemon juicẹ why does the produce mixture taste sweeter than the initial sucrose solution?

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  8iu_nu

  
  March 18th 2010, 12:26 pm

• i should write this down, it may help me in O chem next semester

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  lovely_allie

  
  March 18th 2010, 12:42 pm

• you should but i still haven't found my answer yet.
  

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  lovely_allie

  
  March 23rd 2010, 7:29 pm

• I got the answer.
  
  Sucrose becomes two mono saccharides, which is fructose and gluctose, in acid solution. 2 monosaccharides taste sweeter than one mono....