How did the carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms in glucose and fructose combine to form sucrose? Include in your description which atoms bonded together from fructose and glucose to form sucrose and which atoms reformed to create a water molecule.

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|dw:1599875030617:dw| https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zm_Costa/publication/8123504/figure/fig1/AS:596098745921536@1519132424981/Structural-formula-of-the-sucrose-glucose-fructose.png notice how the hydrogen on glucose, joins with the oxygen+hydrogen on fructose, to make a water molecule (H2O) which is lost from the original molecules. the remaining oxygen atom on glucose, which has just lost a proton, now has excess negative charge, which it can donate to the carbon on fructose, which is now electron deficient