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Not exactly.

Everyday sugar is sucrose, which is a disaccharide. That is a sugar which is made up of two sugar units: glucose and fructose. Glucose and fructose are monosaccharide sugars, which are the smallest unit of sugar. Glucose and fructose are both 6-carbon-sugars, or hexoses and have the same chemical formula, C6H12O6. But their molecular structures are different so that they have different properties: fructose is much sweeter than glucose.


Sucrose is produced when one molecule each of glucose and fructose combine together in a condensation reaction, a process in which one molecule of water is removed.

Thus glucose + fructose => sucrose + water

or C6H12O6 + C6H12O6 = C12H22O11 + H2O


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No, sugar is not a pure compound. It is a mixture of two compounds - glucose and fructose.

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