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.
Among the analyses most frequently performed in sugar laboratories. Brix: - The concentration in grams of dissolved. solids per 100 grams solution of a. solution of pure sucrose having the. same density at the same temperature. as the solution being tested. 1Â°Bx corresponds to 1 gram of sucrose. in 100 grams of solution. A measure of the total dissolved solids in a sugar solution.