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Jennie123
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Why indigo carmine changes from blue to yellow when reacting with KMnO4?

#I am working on the quantification of tannins in green tea through redox titration with potassium permanganate with indigo carmine as redox indicator. The indigo carmine should be oxidized and turn from yellow to blue, however, my results (which is consistent with a lot other researcher's results) suggests that the colour change is from blue to yellow instead. How can this be explained?

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