What color indicates a positive result before the addition of zinc? After?

What will be an ideal response?


Ans:
Red indicated positive nitrate
yellow indicates that nitrite is not present in the medium and that zinc dust must be added to determine if the organism is nitrate negative or if the organism has reduced the nitrate to nitrite and then reduced to nitric oxide, nitrous oxide or nitrogen

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