“…Hydrocortisone in a mixture of sulfuric acid and glacial acetic acid produces a yellow color with a maximum at 470 µ, whereas cortisone does not produce a color in this reagent. This provides a method which is useful for the identification and determination of hydrocortisone in substance, in formulations, and in mixture with cortisone (498). A microchemical detection of the characteristic functional groups in the steroid side chains, using a series of reagents, has been devised ( 14).…”