Answer Sheet FINAL Lipid
Answer Sheet FINAL Lipid
Answer Sheet FINAL Lipid
SOLUBILITY TEST
SUDAN TEST
Appearance
Sample (+)/(-) Indication
Upper Layer Lower Layer
Light red clear
Minola Coconut Oil + Sample is a lipid Red layer of stain
solution
Orange
Anchor Butter + Sample is a lipid Cloudy red layer
heterogenous layer
Clear intense red
Castor Oil + Sample is a lipid Red clear solution
layer
Darker red Red homogenous
Sample is a lipid
Olive Oil + homogenous layer layer
Red layer with
Intense red layer with
Vegetable Lard + Sample is a lipid presence of
presence of globules
globules
Legend: (+) – Presence of Sudan stain (–) – Absence of Sudan stain
1) How can the grease spot test determine if the sample is a lipid or not?
The grease spot test can be used to determine if the sample is a lipid or not because of
the given fact that most lipids have high boiling points, making them non-volatile. This
means that room temperature wouldn't be enough to evaporate them. The samples
leave a translucent spot on the filter paper because they can't absorb enough heat from
the air and get evaporized. Therefore, the samples that leave a translucent spot on the
paper are non-volatile and, thus, are lipids.
Sudan is a red hydrophobic fat-soluble dye. Because of this property, when Sudan is
placed in a solution containing lipids, it mixes with the lipids, a reaction that stains the lipid
red. Since both lipids and Sudan are hydrophobic, when the test tube containing water, a
lipid sample, and Sudan stain is mixed vigorously, the lipid molecules, now bonded with
the Sudan molecules and stained red, form globules and float in the water. When this type
of appearance is observed in a test tube after conducting the Sudan test, that test tube
holds a lipid sample.