Yes, there is a huge difference. Salt crystals taste salty and sugar crystals taste sweet. If you get them mixed up when you bake a cake, the cake tastes terrible!
Yes, there is a huge difference. Salt crystals taste salty and sugar crystals taste sweet. If you get them mixed up when you bake a cake, the cake tastes terrible! But seriously, sugar has a hexagonal crystal structure, while salt has a cubic crystal structure. So they look different. Salt crystals look like little cubes (same shape as dice). Here are links: http://chemistry.about.com/od/crystallography/Crystallography.htm Here’s a photo of salt: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Rock_salt_crystal.jpg And a photo of a sugar crystal: http://k43.pbase.com/o4/07/34307/1/55878002.SugarCrystal.
