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Offline AhmedEzatAlzawalaty

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apricot seeds are wierd
« on: January 11, 2007, 05:25:01 PM »
once upon a time in the lab when i dropped conc HCl on the core or embryo of apricot seeds it turned blue in color.any one know what happened?help
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Re: apricot seeds are wierd
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2007, 05:01:21 AM »
Maybe you protonated the organic cyanides in the seed to HCN, and if there was just only a trace of Fe2+/3+ the colour changes to deep-blue...
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