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.
1 A non-reducing sugar is not oxidised by mild oxidising agents. 2  All common monosaccharides are reducing sugars. 3  The disaccharides maltose and lactose are reducing sugars. 4  The disaccharide sucrose is a non-reducing sugar. Sugars that can be oxidised by mild oxidising agents are called reducing sugars because the oxidising agent is reduced in the reaction.