Testing sugar at home

Detecting presence of mercury ions in a sample of sugar in your house…

Since you don’t have test tubes, you may use a transparent glass.

Dissolve a sample of sugar (teaspoonful) in a quarter glassful of clean water (if you can get distilled water the better)

Prepare a separate solution of sodium chloride (a spoonful of common salt and quarter glass of water)

Add a few drops of the salt solution to the sugar solution…

Observation : if Hg²+ ions are present, the sugar solution will form a white precipitate (or become turbid or milky)

Copper (II) ions in sugar can be tested using wood ash solution where if present, a blue precipitate will be formed.

What’s Hg²+
And where can I find it?

:D:D:D weewacha bana

Hg (hydrargyrum) is the chemical symbol for Mercury. So those are Mercury ions.

@fired thanks, this is very helpful.

Where’s Kebs while we are all trying to be scientists to escape consuming mercury?

Wale watu tulikua hatutambui chem tukae wapi?

Hii tulikuwa tunaita real analysis pale high school ama?

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umepata mercury kwa hiyo kabras sugar??

iko wapi effidens ya Hg²+

Shouldn’t this happen before purchase

hauoni foam

wapi conclusion ya i experiment?

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hiyo white precipitate,is a sign of heavy metal yet to be confirmed in a bigger lab. stay tuned.

89% of all I got from school I don’t find in the real life ni upumbavu tu walimu wanatafuta how to fill some empty space in our heads with rubbish

kwa sink ya kitchen? the conveniency tho

just tried this isht, no white precipitate observed.

Just tried for the sugar for Tomatoe sauce nikapata heavy pressence of Diethyl 2-bromoethylphosphonate with traces of Sodium Lauryl ether sulphate and minute presence of Gloco mono stearate. Naona Tomatoe sauce itakua thicker