When I dissolve sugar in my cup of tea/coffee, does the sugar go from being a solid to being a liquid?
Related: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/5562/what-keeps-the-sugar-suspended-in-the-tea
When I dissolve sugar in my cup of tea/coffee, does the sugar go from being a solid to being a liquid?
Related: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/5562/what-keeps-the-sugar-suspended-in-the-tea
When the sugar dissolves, it is broken up into individual particles; each molecule is surrounded by water molecules. Essentially, you are trying to decide if a single molecule is a solid or liquid when dissolve.
The best fit is a liquid since the molecules are free to move independently and will take on the shape of the container.
When I dissolve sugar in my cup of tea/coffee, does it become a liquid?
The premise of your question is wrong. There is no more "it" for the sugar when dissolved in water. You can't just consider the sugar alone. Rather the sugar becomes a constituent of the liquid phase.
When we dissolve sugar in tea or coffee,the sugar particle get dissociated into smaller particle. As you might be knowing there is inter molecular distance in case of solid,liquid and gas as well. In case of liquid the particles are loosely held compared to solid and also inter molecular distance is more as to solid. So finally particles get packed in those interstitial spaces.so the sugar particles do not get transformed to liquid or gas rather it get surrounded by water molecules.
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Sugar added to tea becomes a solution not a liquid
Sugar is very soluble in water. When you add the solid to the tea the key process is that the solid sugar dissolves in the warm liquid: the solid crystals are broken up into molecules which are every dispersed throughout the existing liquid. When well mixed (because sugar doesn't dissolve instantly) the liquid is homogeneous with the sugar molecules evenly distributed in the single phase bulk liquid. There is no point where the sugar crystals become liquid sugar. And no chemist would describe the result as a sugar liquid. The correct description is a solution of sugar in water.
When sugar dissolves into tea or coffee, the liquid transforms the sugar into a liquid so it can fit in with the liquid and slide in with the molecules. If you try to evaporate the water for long enough, you will turn the sugar back into a solid.
when you dissolve sugar crystals into tea or coffee the tea turns the sugar (solid) into a liquid.It separates the participles in the sugar crystals into smaller particles.