Australia is also the only continent that is governed as a single country. It is sometimes informally referred to as an 'island' continent, surrounded by oceans. Our ocean territory is also the third-largest in the world, spanning three oceans and covering around 12 million square kilometres.
Benedict's Reagent is used to detect reducing sugars. What the reagent does is to oxidize aldehydes or alpha hydroxyl ketones. When this happens the color of the reagent turns from blue to colorless by the reduction of copper(II) to Copper(I) that is colorless.
Another reagent, known as quantitative Benedictâs solution (QBS), can be used to determine, quite precisely, how much reducing sugar is present in a sample. It is similar to the normal reagent, but contains two additional chemicals.educing sugars react with the copper sulfate in Benedictâs reagent, reducing it to copper I oxide, an insoluble, reddish colored compound that forms a precipitate.