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Monday 13 September 2021

Red Cabbage

 Kia Ora,


Aim: To make red cabbage pH indicator for use on different household chemicals. 


Materials:

1. Red Cabbage

2. Beaker

3. Bunsen burner

4. Pipette

5. Sodium Hydrum

6. Hydrochloride Acid

7. Test tubes

8. Paper towels

9. Test tube

10. Water

1. Chop up the red cabbage into small pieces. Place in a beaker and cover with small amount of water.

2. Bring the solution to the boil using a bunsen burner and then turn off the heat. Let it sit to cool down.

3. Pour the cabbage water through a paper towel into a beaker. The dark purple liquid in the jar is the pH indicator liquid. 

4. Suck up the indicator into a pipette.

5. Use the cabbage indicator to test the acidity of the different household liquids by slowly putting a drop at a time in the test tube.

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