Knowledge Application: LABORATORY AT HOME

Experiment 1: Acids and Bases: Natural Indicator

Materials:Rose petals or Gumamela petals (red), Lemon juice, vinegar, baking soda, water,
washing powder solution or detergent solution, soap, milk, coffee, buko juice, soy sauce, cotton
buds, bond paper, scissor, container (glass) for the solutions.
Preparation of solutions:
Add 1 teaspoonful of each solid powder into the glass of water, half full. Use these
solutions in your acid-base experiment.
1. Take some rose/gumamela (red) petals and rub it to a piece of paper making it color
red/pink/purple until the paper is fully covered.
2. Then cut the paper into small strips.
3. Divide the strips into 2 groups.
4. Using a cotton bud dipped in lemon juice,
- Rub the wet cotton bud unto the first group of strips until darker red/pink/purple, this
group will serve as your red litmus paper.
- On the 2nd group, dip the cotton bud unto the baking soda solution and rub it unto the
paper strips. This group will serve as the blue litmus paper.
5. Test the solutions (Lemon juice, vinegar, baking soda, water, washing powder solution
or detergent solution, soap, milk, coffee, buko juice, soy sauce and water) by dipping
half of the strip into each of the solution and record your result.
6. Group the solutions into acids, basic, and neutral.

Note: Please be guided with the illustration below. ACIDIC: BLUE to RED
BASIC: RED to BLUE
NUETRAL: NO CHANGES