On addition of one ml solution of to 10 ml gold sol in the presence
of 0.25 gm of starch, the coagulation is just prevented. Starch has the
following gold number
[MP PET/PMT 1988]
250
By definition gold number of starch is the amount of starch in mg added to 10 ml standard gold sol which prevents the coagulation of gold on adding 1 ml of 10% NaCl solution. So the amount of starch is 0.25g = 250 mg. Hence gold number is 250.