Research Article

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

Figure 5

The influence of the time of heating with the sodium nitrite reagent on the subsequent color development (a) and the function of pH for reaction of the reducing end of chitosan with thiobarbituric acid after 30 min reaction time (b).
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