If you want to measure how
alkaline a solution is you need a scale.
The pH
scale is a way of describing the concentration of acid ions [H+(aq)]
in a liquid.
Strong alkaline solutions
have a high pH (14, 13, ..), schwache Säuren einen niedrigeren (..,9,
8).
Alkaline solutions have
pH btween 8 and 14).
What
you need: Box of a music cassette as
a stand for six 3-ml injection bottles (1 - 6), 1-ml syringe, 1M-NaOH,
pure water (for car battery), universal indicator solution (UI) red grape
juice.
* Transfer 1.0 ml of 1 M
sodium hydroxide solution into bottle 1 by a syringe.
* Transfer 0.9 ml of water
into bottles 2 - 5. * Remove 0.1 ml from bottle
1.
* Mix it with the water
in bottle 2. Remove 0.1 ml from bottle 2.
* Mix it with the water
in bottle 3. Remove 0.1 ml from bottle 3......
* Dilute this solution another
two times in the same manner.
* Add one drop of UI to
each of the bottles labelled 1 - 5.
* Do the same experiment
replacing UI by the indicator red grape juice.
Observation
The
different colours of this dilution series can be compared to a colour
scale.
Left: Using UI you
will only see a colour change in bottle 5 (pH 9).
Right: Taking 2 drops
of red grape juice the colour changes show: Green colour in bottle 1 and
2 (pH 14, 13),
violet at pH 12, red
at pH 11 (bottle 4), pH 10 (bottle 5).