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What is in litmus paper that makes it turn red when dipped in a acid?
Litmus paper is a commonly used pH indicator. Litmus is a water-soluable mixture of dyes extracted from lichens. When the paper is dipped into an acidic solution, the paper absorbs a proton from the acidic solution, and it creates a new compound inside the paper that absorbs lower energy light (red light). This makes the paper appear red.
What happens to pH paper when dipped in coffee?
Being that coffee is acidic litmus paper should turn reddish
Why is the pH scale better than litmus?
Litmus solution is added to an acid or base to measure its pH. Litmus paper is dipped in. You can take the paper back out, but the solution can't be pulled back out.
What happens when you mix blue litmus paper in bases?
Blue litmus does not change when placed in a basic solution.
What colour would litmus paper turn when dipped in an aqueous solution of aspirin?
Aspirin is acidic, so it would turn red.
What happens when blue litmus paper is dipped in vinegar solution?
Blue litmus paper turns into red.
When a strip of litmus paper is dipped into an acidic solution the paper turns into what color?
The litmus paper will turn red.
What color does a strip of litmus paper dipped in acidic solution turn?
Litmus paper is blue when dipped in an alkaline solution, and red when placed in an acidic solution. The colors begin to merge when you test pH neutral liquids.
What color does litmus paper turn when it is dipped in a base solution?
blue
When a strip of litmus paper is dipped into an acidic solution the paper turns?
It turns red.
What happens when red litmus paper is dipped in urine?
red litmus paper turns blue under alkaline conditions.
What happens when a BLUE litmus paper is dipped in an acid?
Blue litmus paper turns RED in an acid. Red litmus paper turns BLUE in a base.
When a tip of litmus paper is dipped into an alkaline solution the paper turns what color?
It stays blue.
What color does litmus paper turn when it's dipped in a base solution?
blue
What color is litmus paper when dipped into an alkaline solution?
blue litmus remains blue while red litmus changes to blue
When a strip of litmus is dipped into alkaline solution the paper turns?
Red litmus become blue in basic solutions.
What happens to red litmus paper if dipped in sugar water?
Nothing particularly happens.
