what elements combine to make sugar
Sugar is a type of carbohydrate. It turns out there is a whole class of carbohydrates called sugars.. The kind of sugar we usually think about-table sugar-is called sucrose. Sugar is made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms. It's the way these atoms are connected that makes each type of carbohydrate different. In each molecule of table sugar there are: 12 carbon atoms, 22 hydrogen atoms, and 11 oxygen atoms. The black stuff is called burnt sugar! But seriously, this is what happens when you heat or burn things that contain carbon.