Meths
The violet colored substance present in Iodex is Methyl Salicylate, which is an analgesic and rubefacient used to relieve muscle pain and inflammation.
Some times red coloured liquid is used but mostly gray coloured liquid is used.
Salicylaldehyde will give a violet color with neutral ferric chloride.
Coloured alcohol, such as dyed ethyl alcohol, is used in thermometers because it has a lower freezing point and a wider temperature range compared to water-based solutions. This allows for accurate temperature measurements over a wide range of temperatures. Additionally, the color makes it easier to read and interpret the temperature on the scale.
The liquid used in a spirit level is typically called either spirit or alcohol. It is a clear liquid that helps indicate whether a surface is level by creating a bubble that moves to the center of the vial.
meths - short for methylated spirits
No, iodine is a violet coloured solid on heating it sublimed into violet gas.
The colour makes the alcohol easier to see inside the thin glass thermometer.
Olaus Roemer
The violet colored substance present in Iodex is Methyl Salicylate, which is an analgesic and rubefacient used to relieve muscle pain and inflammation.
1) take 10gm of gentian violet. then add to them: 2) Alcohol 70% ( H2O).... to 1000 ml
white light is made from red, orange, green, blue, yellow, indigo and violet.
It's the red thing in thermometers. [wrong I'm sorry.] the red thread in a thermometer is coloured alcohol. If the thread is mercury, then it will be silver-coloured.
The liquid in a clinical thermometer is often mercury. But there are thermometers that use a coloured alcohol.
Some times red coloured liquid is used but mostly gray coloured liquid is used.
Iodine is a halogen. It originates from the word "iode(s)" meaning violet because it has a violet coloured gas. It also was found by accident from Bernard Courois. Sorry if its not going to help as I am only 10 yrs old.
The alcohol is a decolorizer. In gram negative organisms, the small amount of peptidoglycan can't hold onto the crystal violet in the presence of the alcohol and so becomes decolorized. The gram positive organisms have a much thicker peptidoglycan layer, and so the crystal violet stays in even with washing by alcohol.