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Is aluminum compatible with pure ethanol?
No, since the ethanol is pure it is a base and will make the alluminium turn all black and rusty. Hope this helped :-)
What is the purpose of ice-cold ethanol?
In an experiment to extract DNA from something like an onion or strawberry, the last step is to slowly pour ice cold ethanol into the test tube. This causes the DNA to precipitate out of the solution and white stringy material appears a the boundary of the ethanol and prepared DNA solution. The reason why it happen is because ethanol solution break down the nuclear membrane and cell membrane.
How does ethanol remove chlorophyll?
You can remove chlorophyll from leaves by breaking down the plant cells' membranes using heat and rubbing alcohol
Why does ethanol burn differently than ethanol and water mixed?
the main reason why ethanol burns differently then ethanol and water mix is mainly because when you add the water to the ethanol you are making the ethanol less potent so it will burn weaker.
Is ethanol reducing agent?
ethanol is a solvent
What will happen to the boiling leaf when in ethanol what will happen to the leaf and the ethanol?
the ethanol will change colour and the leaf will soften
Why does leaf turn light green when boiled in ethanol?
add the leaf to boiling ethanol in a water bath for a few minutes (the boiling ethanol dissolves the chlorophyll and removes the green colour from the leaf - it turns white so it is easy to see the change in colour) wash with water to rehydrate and soften the leaf
Why did the leaf turn brittle in testing a leaf for starch?
The leaf turns brittle during the testing the leaf for starch because the ethanol extracts the all water content from the leaf.
Why does leaf turn blue black when boiled in ethanol first then iodine?
Boiling in ethanol strips the leaf's waxy outer coating off, then the iodine turns it blue black because it's reacting to the presence of starch, a product of photosynthesis.
What is the texture of a leaf before boiling it in ethanol?
what type of leaf?
What happens when you soak green leaves in ethanol?
Ethanol extracts chlorophyll from leaf .
How do you carry out to test for presence of starch?
Half fill a beaker with boiling water and add a large test tube that is a quarter full of ethanol. Allow the ethanol to come to a boil. Do not heat the ethanol in a Bunsen burner flame. This is not safe because ethanol is highly flammable. Take a leaf that has been sitting in good light for at least a few days, and soften in the boiling water for ten seconds or so. Then add to the ethanol, and allow to boil for about a minute until all the color disappears from the leaf. Remove the leaf from the ethanol. Put it back in the hot water to soften for 10 seconds. Spread the leaf out on a white tile and use the iodine solution to test for starch a blue-black color indicates starch is present.
What is the result of the Test for the presence of starch in a leaf?
Method Half fill a beaker with boiling water and add a large test tube that is a quarter full of ethanol. Allow the ethanol to come to the boil. Do not heat the ethanol in a Bunsen burner flame. This is not safe because ethanol is highly flammable. Take a leaf that has been sitting in good light for at least a few days, and soften on the boiling water for ten seconds or so. Then add to the ethanol and allow to boil for about a minute until all the colour disappears from the leaf. Remove the leaf from the ethanol. Put it back in the hot water to soften for 10 seconds. Spread the leaf out on a white tile and use the iodine solution to test for starch A blue-black colour indicates starch is present. This experiment can be repeated with leaves that have been left in the dark. or have been deprived of carbon dioxide.
How do you extract chlorophyll from spinach?
Materials: a leaf, a 100 mL beaker, 10 mL ethanol, a hot plate, a power outlet to plug the hot plate into, a Petri dish, goggles, supervision (if you're a kid) Suppose you're working with a spinach leaf. Put it into a 100 mL beaker. Add 10 mL of ethanol to it. Place the beaker with ethanol on a hot plate and set the heat to 2 or 3. Do not crush the leaf or boil the ethanol, which will turn green as chlorophyll gets extracted. Turn off the heat when the ethanol is nicely green. Let the solution cool, put the leaf in a Petri dish or discard it, and pour the chlorophyll extract someplace where you can observe it better. That's the extracted chlorophyll! You can use this method with any leaf, really. Spinach was just an example.
What is the role of iodine in testing a leaf for starch?
A hot bath of ethanol decolorizes the leaf by washing out the chlorophyll. If the leaf is not decolorized, you cannot see the blue-black stain that results from the iodine reacting with the starch.
At what temperature does solid ethanol turn into liquid ethanol?
-114 degrees C
Why is a stencil is placed on a leaf?
Because if a stencil is left on the leaf long enough, the process of producing chlorophyl which makes a leaf green, is only created in the opening of the stencil and the rest behing the stencil turns white. That in turn creates the image on a leaf. Because if a stencil is left on the leaf long enough, the process of producing chlorophyl which makes a leaf green, is only created in the opening of the stencil and the rest behing the stencil turns white. That in turn creates the image on a leaf.
