Homework Help: chemistry

Posted by Namie on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 2:34am.

In sugar production, a process involves seeding of a supersaturated solution (sugar as solute) by adding 'ground sugar with few amounts of isopropyl alcohol'. My question is, why must the ground sugar be wetted with isopropyl alcohol?

thanks in advance.

chemistry - DrBob222, Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 11:25am
Bob Pursley answered this question yesterday.

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