Research Article
Antimicrobial Activity of Perspiration Pads and Cotton Cloth Fabricated with the Ethyl Acetate Extract of Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
Table 1
Phytochemical screening of the ethyl acetate extract of fresh waterhyacinth.
| S. number | Phytochemicals | Ethyl acetate extract |
| 1 | Alkaloids | | a | Meyers test | + | b | Wagner’s test | + | c | Hager’s test | + | 2 | Flavonoids | | a | Lead acetate test | − | b | H2SO4 test | − | 3 | Sterols | | a | H2SO4 test | − | b | Liebermann-Burchard test | + | 4 | Terpenoids | | a | Chloroform test | + | b | Liebermann-Burchard test | − | 5 | Anthraquinone | | a | Borntrager’s test | + | 6 | Anthocyanins | | a | NaOH test | − | 7 | Proteins | | a | Ninhydrin test | − | 8 | Phenolics | | a | Ferric chloride test | − | b | Liebermann’s test | + | 9 | Quinones | | a | HCl test | + | 10 | Carbohydrates | | a | Molisch’s test | + | b | Fehling’s test | + | 11 | Saponin | | a | Foam test | − | 12 | Tannin | | a | Braymer’s test | − |
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