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Action of lipase on milk
Shopping: 500cm3 full cream milk
Apparatus
Water baths at 36°C
1 and 3 cm3 pipettes
Materials
5% Bile Salts (25cm3 per group)
100cm3 Phenolphthalein - diluted to half strength with ethanol (5cm3 per group)
2% Lipase (5cm3 per group)
"Alkaline milk" - 50cm3 full cream milk and 10cm3 0.2M Na2CO3
(1M Na2CO3 = 286.15 gl-1 so 0.2M = 57.2 gl-1)