Turning cotton balls into cotton candy

Summary by Krater

The creator attempts to break down cotton balls into glucose using sulfuric acid and then turn that glucose into cotton candy using a cotton candy machine.

From the video

Answers: Can you turn cotton balls into cotton candy?

• cellulose hydrolysis
• cotton candy chemistry
• acid hydrolysis of cellulose
• glucose repolymerization

Ingredients

• 77 g cotton balls
• 230 g sulfuric acid
• 70 g ice
• 245 g calcium carbonate
• water

What it concludes

• Pure glucose cannot be directly spun into cotton candy without being partially caramelized and repolymerized into longer chains first.
• Cotton balls can be broken down using sulfuric acid to produce glucose, which can then be processed into edible cotton candy.