Could anyone suggest me any good method for measuring the Furosine level of my rice sample?

I am working on parboiled rice. for investigating the color change due to parboiling and relation with Maillard reaction, I have to check the level of Furosine in my sample. If possible kindly...

09 October 2019 5,278 4 View

Could anyone tell me how to determine the level of reducing sugars?

I am working on parboiled rice, For checking the effect of parboiling on rice color I have to determine the level of Reducing sugars.

06 July 2019 3,768 3 View

Could anyone tell me how can I get the level of Free alpha-Amino Nitrogen (FAN) from Rice flour?

I am working on parboiled rice, after parboiling I have to check the level of free alpha-Amino nitrogen to determine the effect of steaming. Now which method should I follow, If possible kindly...

06 July 2019 2,113 4 View

How to maintain same moisture content???

For parboiling rice I have to follow three steps, soaking(A), steaming(B) and drying(C). In my experiment I have designed like this- 1.A,B,C 2.B,C 3.A,C to check the effect of these steps on rice...

04 May 2019 3,511 3 View

Can anyone tell me about the optimal temperature, time and a good method for rice parboiling(soaking,steaming,drying)??

For my experiment I have to parboil little amount of rice but I am confused about which method and optimization should I follow. It would be kind if you give me some suggestion or suggest me a...

04 May 2019 5,620 5 View

Could anyone suggest me for measuring and calculating rice color which method should I follow?

01 January 1970 6,312 7 View

Heat exchanger with liquid Nitrogen as coolant?

I want to cool Natural Gas from 195 Kelvin to 138 Klevin in a heat exchanger by using liquid nitrogen as the coolant medium. When entering the heat exchanger, the liquid nitrogen will have a...

01 March 2021 6,450 5 View

Why do a weight decrease for thermal degradation in nitrogen gas condition?

Hi all The question is related to TGA(Thermogravimetric analysis). Thermal degradation easily understood but why do samples weight decrease? altough just binding is broked, the weight of...

26 February 2021 1,100 5 View

Steps to calculate activation energy by coats & redfern method?

I'm a chemistry student and I'm researching the kinetic degradation of mixed plastic waste. I'm having trouble calculating the activation energy by the coats & Redfern method. The data that...

24 February 2021 974 1 View

Alternative to mediation analysis?

I am currently working on my dissertation and want to explore the role of competence as a mediator between the effect of colour of clothes on voting intention (focus on Western countries)....

21 February 2021 8,609 1 View

Color of spiro-ometad film?

What does the color of a spiro-ometad film indicate? I got purple, green, red, even black color of the spiro film. Is there anything we can get from the preliminary color analysis(e.g. oxidation...

21 February 2021 1,831 4 View

Any information about dinitrosalisylic acid reagent end point color stability ?

I work on estimation of alpha amylase activity using dinitrosalisylic acid reagent If i put the reagent to stope the enzymatic reaction and allow the reagent to react with the produced reducing...

17 February 2021 7,402 4 View

Negative result on natural product sample cholinergic assay?

i have been doing cholinergic assay on natural product and for some of the samples, i get negative value for the inhibition activity. can anyone help me explain the meaning of the negative value...

17 February 2021 4,118 1 View

Has anyone performed a colorimetric RT-LAMP assay using Lucigens LavaLAMP kit?

Hi there, my lab recently opted to use LavaLAMP from Lucigen instead of the Warmstart kit from NEB. However, Lucigen has yet to create a colormetric kit for RT-LAMP, and adding phenol-Red (pH...

17 February 2021 5,399 1 View

What is the actual chemistry going on between iodate and ascorbic acid?

I am studying biochemistry at university, as part of the course we do several titration experiments. In our handouts, we were given the following half equations: IO3- + 6H+ + 4e- I+ +...

16 February 2021 8,731 1 View

How much costs direct reduction of nitrogen on farmland in terms of lower crop yield?

Dear research fellows, I wonder if someone knows how much direct reduction of nitrogen on farmland costs in terms of lower crop yield expressed as EUR/kg nitrogen (or similar)? I understand that...

15 February 2021 1,323 3 View