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Inside a 2cm clear sugarglass sphere lies in wait one fluid ounce of 200 proof ethanol, along with spirit-flavour particulates.
Does sugar dissolve in alcohol?
http://www.ask.com/...dissolve-in-alcohol
As mentioned in an annotation. [Vernon, Jan 03 2014]
Salt and alcohol
http://malaysia.ans...070707022150AASDo36
As implied in an annotation. [Vernon, Jan 03 2014]
[link]
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What keeps the ethanol from dissolving the sugar
container between the point of manufacture and the
customer, weeks later? |
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That's the neat thing: alcohols don't dissolve sugars. |
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[marked-for-deletion] reason? - snowglobe |
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"alcohols don't dissolve sugars" --I might be willing
to take issue with that (but admit I need to look it
up to see the Answer, so might be just blathering
here), because of this rationale: |
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Alcohol contains both "polar" and "nonpolar"
components in its molecular structure. The polar
component lets it be "miscible" (mixes in any
proportion) with water; the nonpolar component
lets it be miscible with most lightweight oils. |
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The combination of polar and nonpolar
components makes alcohol a reasonable solvent
for a wide variety of solid substances, although
there are limits, of course. Still, based on what I
know about various molecular structures, if I had
to pick
between ordinary table salt and sugar, I would say
alcohol
would have more difficulty dissolving the salt (the
polar property of alcohol is a rather-smaller
magnitude than
that of water). |
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And now to google for the Answer...(see link) |
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That problem is easily solved by making the walls thicker. Only a certain amount will dissolve before it reaches saturation. |
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PULL! <blam!> Damn, missed... |
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[mitxela], that sounds reasonable; it might be better
to pre-saturate the alcohol with sugar before
enclosing it. However, I am mindful of the notion
"equilibrium", in which particles both dissolve-into
and precipitate-out-of a solution. Those events
seldom happen at exactly the same place. Net
effect, those walls will have a limited life-span (to be
determined by testing, of course). |
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Certainly this must work by trebuchet method? |
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If you substitute butanol in place of ethanol, the
sugar will be less soluble and you can still get drunk. |
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Simple solution, make the globes of ice and store them in the refridgerator. |
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[Vernon] Originally the idea was going to be for a candy, but plugging "does sugar dissolve in alcohol ?" into Google produced a bunch of "no" answers, so I decided to go with the anhydrous shot instead, with saturation as a backup plan. |
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[bigs] sure it wasn't a schnapps ? somethingschlager. Oddly enough I didn't think of liquor'd chocolates until long after I posted it. Those'd be the heavily saturated ones I imagine. |
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"Goldschlager", that was the stuff: it had little gold flakes in it for the purpose of having little gold flakes in it. Anyways the snowglobe shooter would have much more of a kick than any chocolate on the market. |
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[V] ah, so sugar will dissolve very little in alcohol ? okay, we just saturate the pure alcohol first so there's no chance of the inside of the sphere frosting out. |
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I had vodka with gold leaf in it, it was definitely vodka and it was in a Russian cafe in Glasgow. |
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