Can I Buy Indophenol?

If you do not want to make your own vitamin C indicator, you can purchase a bottle of indophenol online. This is a liquid that, like a cornstarch solution, turns colorless in the presence of vitamin C. You can buy a bottle of indophenol online, and use it as you would use a cornstarch solution.

How do you make indophenol solution?

Fun Fact: You can make an indophenol solution by mixing 0.5 g of indophenol powder with 1 cup of water.

What is indophenol made of?

Indophenol is an artificial blue metachromatic dye, obtained by the action of phenol on certain nitrogenous derivatives of quinone.