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test for sodium nitrite?

ldanielrosa - 16-4-2010 at 01:09

Hopefully without anything too exotic. I'd like to test my bacon. No, really. I'd like to test for sodium nitrite in what is otherwise labeled as food.

I am a fish - 16-4-2010 at 02:08

Nitrite will turn dilute iron (II) sulphate solution dark brown, due to the formation of a complex.