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My new learning today was how to make hard candy, and what the ingredients did to the candy. For example, the corn syrup made the hard candy transparent and shiny, but if you were to make hard candy without corn syrup, the candy would be ugly, opaque, and non shiny. I also learned that candies are chemical reactions. Another weird thing I learned was honey is bees' regurgitate (puke).

I most enjoyed making and eating the cotton candy (or candy floss), because it is my favorite type of candy. I also didn't know that cotton candy machines can be killing machines.

What I would do differently is to make the lollipops (hard candy) in a more comfortable position, because the lollipops were hard to put in my mouth. The lollipops in some other science groups weren't as hard as my group's so they got to change the shape of their lollipops. This makes me think that they made their lollipops in the wrong temperature (because hard candy is supposed to be hard).

The first picture shows me stirring the sugar syrup on a heating pad, and the second picture shows some hard candy another group made.

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