Question

Indigo (CHNO,), the dye used to colour blue jeans is derived from a compound known as indoxyl (C,H,ON). Calculate the molar masses of these compounds.​

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Answer:

Indigo dye is an organic compound with a distinctive blue color. Historically, indigo was a natural dye extracted from the leaves of some plants of the Indigofera genus, in particular Indigofera tinctoria; dye wielding Indigofera plants were commonly grown and used throughout the world, in Asia in particular, as an important crop, with the production of indigo dyestuff economically important due to the previous rarity of some blue dyestuffs historically.