Let us play bees: Make honey from sugar and lactic acid

Honey is usually made in the stomach of bees: They are treating the sugar juice they got from flowers. There is acid in the stomach. We use lactic acid to make our honey.
What you need
Infusion bottle 50 ml, scale, tea spoon, electric hot plate, sugar, water, lactic acid.
Work on a tray made by halfing and cleaning a TetraPak milk packing!
Experiment
* We half-fill the bottle with water and weigh 12 g of sugar.
* We dissolve the sugar and 5 drops of lactic acid while stirring and heating.
* We go on heating and stirring until half of the water has disappeared.
* After cooling the liquidmust be a sirup after. If not we have to go on heating and stirring.
* Left:
* Middle:

* Right:


 Schalko, Stiegel , Chemie und Schule 1a, S. 75 (2001). ...............................llast modification : 29.04.2001