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11 years ago
If you threw some crystal drano sans aluminum in a pyrex with honey and microwaved it.

honey is water, fructose and sucrose, I think.
Well if it etches the glass...
I guess that it got hotter than the boiling temperature for the hydroxide as it was bubbling and the remaining dried solid without interstitial space.
Heating NaOH is inadvisable in general.
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11 years ago
First of all, you're a nut.  Or at least a guy who likes to buy new microwaves.

I'm not sure there is an actual reaction between sodium hydroxide and sugar.  For the sake of chemistry, we can treat all sugar as C6H12O6.  If anything the reaction will produce carbon dioxide and water, but this happens anyway when you burn any sugar so it might be hard to separate the two processes.

Will check and get back to you  Slight Smile

Update:  See the link below.  The only thing I can find is that NaOH will oxidize glucose, though this doesn't work as well for sucrose.  I don't think heating will have any effect other than to make the reaction go faster (and it already goes pretty fast, apparently.

Have you thought about a career in chemistry?  You have the right kind of mind for it -- i.e., let's throw these chemicals together and see what happens!  By the way, I would NOT try this with NaOH and any kind of acid solution.  It might be dangerous under the wrong conditions.
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