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What colour is an iodine solution?

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Brown/Orange/Yellowy

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Why is rice brown in colour when iodine solution is put on it?

cause iodine(brown) stains the rice


What colour does iodine solution turn when starch is presant?

It turns a dark purple/blue colour


What color is starch with iodine solution?

it is a yellowish/orange colour but when iodine is present, than it will turn an dark-blue/black colour


Which liquid can easily dissolve the green colour from the leaf?

iodine solution


What colors does starch turn if there is a little amount present?

starch will not change its own colour but it can change the colour of iodine solution. iodine solution is originally brown. after adding starch, it will turn into dark blue.


What colour does iodine solution turn red litmus paper?

The color not change.


Would the iodine solution change colour when it is tested on a slice of bread?

negative


What color gives if starch reacts with iodine?

When iodine reacts with starch, the solution will turn a brownish colour.


Why did each of the solutions turn iodine blueblack at the start of the experiments?

Iodine is famous for testing of the presence of starch. I would assume starch is present in the solution, therefore iodine would turn blue. Originally, the colour of iodine solution is brown.


Why isn't starch present when colour is light brown?

The Iodine test uses Iodine solution, which is usually a brown colour. It is used to test for the presence of Starch. Iodine solution, iodine dissolved in an aqueous solution of potassium iodide, reacts with starch producing a blue black color. If the sample being tested doesn't turn blue-black, then starch isn't present.


What color would you see if iodine solution is added to starch?

A deep blue colour


Why does Iodine test gives blue color with starch but red with glycogen?

Iodine forms colour complexes with polysaccharides. The colour of the complex depends of the 3d structure of the polysaccharide. Starch is a coiled structure, which turns blue when bound to IKI (iodine solution), whereas glycogen, which is a branched molecule, turns red/brown.