Research Article

A New Rapid and Sensitive Spectrophotometric Method for Determination of a Biopolymer Chitosan

Figure 2

Absorbance spectrum of the pink-fluorescent product from the reaction between reducing end of chitosan and thiobarbituric acid. 400 to 700 nm spectrum is plotted and clearly shows the maximum wavelength is 555 nm for the pink color formed.
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