Monday, November 29, 2010

Creation of the Cube for Sugar Sugar

 If you look back at my November 23rd post on  how to glue sugar cubes together. The mixture is:
1 egg white
1/8 tsp of cream of tartar
and a cup of icing sugar or powder sugar




Beginning the Build
 I decided, after measuring in the previous process, that the cube would need to be 8 x 8 x 8 sugar cubes to fit nicely within the tin. So I used the mixture of egg and sugar as a kind of mortar to keep the sugar cubes together. The cream of tartar helps prevent the sugar cubes from dissolving when being stuck together.
 Here is the finished cube. It weighs a ton (not really) but it's quite heavy and ready to be eroded.


 Here is the cube within its holder and is ready to be 'melted' down into sugar water.
 Here is what the project might look like over time.


The cube is ready for its doom!

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