Why does sugar disappear when you stir it into water?
Sugar's Vanishing Trick
Why does sugar disappear when you stir it into water?
You drop a spoonful of sugar into your tea, give it a stir, and — poof — it's gone. But here's the twist: it didn't actually vanish. Taste the tea. There it is, sweet as ever. So where did the sugar go?
Let's zoom way, way in on a single sugar crystal. Up close, it's not one solid block. It's billions of tiny sugar pieces, stacked together neat and tidy, like a crowd of friends standing shoulder to shoulder holding hands.
