I forgot to mention a new discovery, thanks to Wednesday's Jeopardy episode. Apparently sugar refining involves something called "mother liquor". I was so disturbed by this (also giggled out of my mind) that I searched for the show's transcripts just to confirm. I confirmed it:
| 00:14:45 | Steve, back to you. uh, sugar for $800, please. |
| 00:14:50 | An early process in refining is washing the syrupy mother liquor from the raw sugar in this type of rotating machine. |
| 00:15:01 | That's a centrifuge. steve. |
| 00:15:03 | , uh, sugar for $2,000, please. |
| 00:15:05 | .. |
| 00:15:07 | In large factory vacuum pans, the sugar seed is mixed into the mother liquor to initiate the formation of these structures. |
| 00:15:16 | The surface regularity reflects its internal atomic symmetry. |
| 00:15:20 | , obviously, this category is too sweet for the three of you. |
| 00:15:26 | We're talking about crystals. sugar crystals. |
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