Red Bottle Methylene blue indicator is added to a pink solution of resazurin, dextrose and potassium hydroxide. When the solution is shaken it becomes intensely blue. After a short time the blue color fades yielding a pink solution which then fades to clear. Shaking the solution re-establishes the blue color. The size of the movie file is 5.5 MB and its duration is 82 seconds. The name of the movie file is "BOTLRED.MOV" and it is located in the folder "MOVIES/BOTL". If your browser has not brought the movie into the above space (you might be running a version of Netscape earlier than 3.0 or not have the proper plug-in), clicking on the following will possibly access the movie. Play movie. First movie for this topic Back to the topic
Methylene blue indicator is added to a pink solution of resazurin, dextrose and potassium hydroxide. When the solution is shaken it becomes intensely blue. After a short time the blue color fades yielding a pink solution which then fades to clear. Shaking the solution re-establishes the blue color.
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