Why the leaf is boiled in alcohol over a water bath for iodine test?

Dear Student,

 Leaf is boiled in alcohol to remove the chlorophyll and decolourize the leaf. Now if you want to know why we use water bath for that? The answer is that alcohol is highly inflammable and may catch fire on direct heating.

Hope this clears your doubt,

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