Saturday, January 17, 2009

Litmus

I have been missing for a while. Reason being that I have been quite busy these couple of weeks. No cause for concern though. I'm fine and well.

Was reading and found out that litmus paper is just paper soaked in a litmus solution. Litmus is basically a weak acid that is red in colour. Its conjugate base is blue. So when hydrogen ions are added, by Le-Chateliers Principle, the position of equilibrium shifts and it turns red.

Cool huh?

1 comment:

dlanorpi said...

Absolutely! But don't forget about the observers effect. =)