Benedict's test detects reducing sugars by heating the sample with Benedict's solution; a color change from blue to green, orange, or brick-red indicates the presence and concentration of reducing sugars.
Benedict's test detects reducing sugars by heating the sample with Benedict's solution; a color change from blue to green, orange, or brick-red indicates the presence and concentration of reducing sugars.
| Front | benedicts test 2.1.2(q) |
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| Back | - sample in boiling tube in liquid form - equal volume of bemedicts solution added (alkaline solution of CuSO4) - heat in water bath works as Cu2+(blue) ions donated an electron by RS to form Cu+(brick red) -if low conc of benedicts (green), medium(orange), high(red) |
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