Why does sugar make things sticky?
In: Chemistry
I’ll pop in with another point worth knowing, although the video link is more than good enough. “Sticky” is not a universal quality. Tape, sugar, and the like is sticky on skin, on a table, on a busted muffler, whatever. However there are plenty of things these adhesives and adhesive-esque materials are not capable of bonding to. Oil your hand up and put on a band-aid: good luck. Adhesion is best considered as a two-way street. The adhesive is sticky to you, but in some physical or chemical sense (or both), if it could talk, it would say you’re sticky to it as well.
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