Warning: Chemistry lesson!


I can't imagine why you think burning ethanol creates sugar. The process of 
burning combines the carbon and hydrogen in organic molecules with oxygen to 
create carbon dioxide and water. If combustion is incomplete you might get 
residual carbon (soot), carbon monoxide and maybe some smaller organic 
compounds. Ethanol is C2H6O. Sugar is C12H22O11. Burning makes molecules 
smaller, not larger. There is no way you could produce sugar by burning ethanol.



Mark Minton
Organic Chemist (Retired)


On Tue, 24 Sep, 2019 at 4:28 PM, Michael Gibbons <[email protected]> wrote:
 

To: [email protected]

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When you burn ethanol what is the by-product left in your engine? Why that 
would be sugar.  Why not just put a pound of sugar in your gas tank with each 
fill up. That's crazy no one would do that. Yes they would we are all forced to 
when using ethanol. 
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