whhat is the chemical composition of fehling's reagent?

Answer Posted / biomaster

Fehling's reagent consists of two solutions.

solution A contains 7% CUSO4 and solution B contains 25%KOH
and 35% sodium potassium tartarate.

When the two solutions are mixed in equal amounts a clear
blue solution results for the tartrate forms a soluble
complex with the copperhydroxide produced.this solution is
widely used as an oxidising agent preferably in
quantitative sugar determinations.

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