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Making Glucose

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 7:48 am
by lomore
hi there, i am trying to make glucose for an experiment but I'm not sure how to. i have worked out that if i take sugar and water they make the chemical formula for glucose

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C12H22O11 + H2O -> 2C6H12O6
i was using the balancing tool on this website but it said that it was a chemical impossibility. is this true or could it work?
thanks

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 11:01 am
by expert
I copied your equation C12H22O11 + H2O -> 2C6H12O6 into the chemistry tool http://www.webqc.org/balance.php
and got the result Balanced equation:
C12H22O11 + H2O = 2 C6H12O6

Everything works! Make sure use O for oxygen, nor 0 (zero): very common mistake