Explain why sugar is classified as a compound but a sugar solution is classified as a mixture?

Answer 1

Sugar ( eg glucose) always have a fix proportion of the elements carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, a property which is characteristic of compounds only. Whereas a sugar solution is not made up of fixed proportions of sugar and water. ( If you add one spoonful of sugar to water , it will be a sugar solution. If you add another spoonful of sugar , it will still remain a sugar solution.)

Answer 2

Sugar is classified as a compound because it is composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms bonded together in a specific ratio (chemical formula - C12H22O11). When sugar is dissolved in water to make a sugar solution, it forms a homogeneous mixture in which the sugar molecules disperse throughout the water molecules without undergoing a chemical change, leading to its classification as a mixture.

Answer 3

Sucrose, which is common table sugar, has the molecular formula C12H22O11.

Its a compound since it contains carbon,hydrogen,oxygen combines together in a fixed ratio.

But sugar solution is called mixture because the bonding of elements with there ratio alters and becomes singe elements.

It can be observe easily....sugar solution is less sweeter than sugar

Answer 4

The sugar solution consists of two or more different elements and/or compounds physically intermingled: Water and sugar