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- noun (Physiol. Chem.) A dextrin which gives a red color with iodine. See
dextrin .
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- noun chemistry A
dextrin which gives a red colour withiodine .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Brukner regards the red color as resulting from a mixture of erythrodextrin, and the greater solubility of this substance in water.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various
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If a mixture of filtered potato starch paste and erythrodextrin is dried in a watch glass covered with a thin pellicle of collodion, and a drop of iodine solution placed on the latter, it penetrates very slowly through the pellicle, the dextrin becoming first tinctured with red, and the granulose afterward with blue.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various
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If, on the other hand, no erythrodextrin is used, the diffusion of the iodine causes at once simply a blue coloring.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various
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