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Iodine staining of onion cells?

Recently when staining an onion cell with iodine, it didn't seem to react with any starch which i thought was odd (school lab wet mount). So basically what happened was it remained a brownish yellow color, with no noticeable effects. Was the iodine meant to turn blue reacting with starch, or make the cell more visible?

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Hey I've done this exact same thing before and the iodine was meant to turn blue reacting with starch

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