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 Testing for the presence of starch (complex sugar). 2  Lugol's reagent (iodine solution) changes from yellowish-brown to dark purple/black. 3  Testing for simple carbohydrates (monosaccharides and some disaccharides). 4  Benedict's solution is used to test for simple carbohydrates.