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  A boy was rushing with a bottle of tincture iodine. Some iodine solution splashed on his yellow coloured, cotton shirt and also on the white table cloth. The stain on the table cloth was yellowish brown while that on his shirt was blue-black. The most obvious scientific reason for this?

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                   The reason is that shirt was starched after washing but the table cloth was not.         (1)