Fehling's solution

A reagent composed of copper (II) sulfate, Rochelle salt (see tartaric acid), and sodium hydroxide, used in chemical analysis to detect aldehydes (and distinguish them from ketones), including some sugars. It is reduced to a brick-red copper (I) oxide precipitate, from whose amount the quantity of sugar can be determined.

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