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Good luck on distilling that sugar to get alcohol - it does not work that way.
Alcohol is made by fermenting a water solution of sugar and starches, where yeast consumes the carbohydrates (sugars and starches such as grain, rice, potatoes or fruit) and produces alcohol and carbon dioxide as waste products. You can then concentrate that fizzy alcohol waste solution by heating the liquid and condensing and saving the steam, which will concentrate the alcohol along with other chemicals that come along for the ride in the steam, depending on the temperature of the initial heated liquid.
Distillation is that heating and condensing process.
If you distill a sugar and water solution you end up with heated sugar in the original vessel and distilled water from the steam condensate in the other vessel.
Feb 3, 2012, 1:03:28 AM
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