Do You Have Acid Breath?
Do you have acid breath? Take a quick test to see how bad your breath is…or maybe just do a little kitchen science to test the difference between acids and bases.
Blow bubbles into an acid/base indicator. The indicator in the water will react with the carbon dioxide (an acid) in your breath and change the color of the liquid. Or save your breath and drop in dry ice. It’s also carbon dioxide and will speed up the process.
Cabbage juice (the smell is wonderful) is also a good acid/base indicator. The liquid will turn green when a base is added and will turn red when an acid is added. What common household chemicals and liquids can you test with this? For a complete experiment, liquids to try and more, check out Red Cabbage Chemistry.
I tried doing this acid breath experiment with purple cabbage. I blended the purple cabbage real well and then filtered it. Then i tried blowing bubble in it to have the CO2 react and make the cabbage juice solution turn clear. This didnt work. What are the proper steps for this experiment.
what are the materials needed cause I really need it today
Here’s a link to the complete experiment with a list of materials https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/content/experiment/red-cabbage-chemistry
I m interested in red cabbage chemistry experiment , but I want to take it beyond meaning where steve generated carbondioxide in the same experiment by using dry ice. Pls give me a written info as I gave you my email add before but I did not get any response.
Anita
Hi Anta – Here is a link that you can print off with more information on the red cabbage experiment –
https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/red-cabbage-chemistry
And here’s more on the dry ice/pH experiment –
1. Fill the plastic cylinder with 400
mL of water. Add a teaspoon
(about 5 mL) of Uni ver sal
Indicator. Use a long spoon or
stirring stick to mix the solution.
Note the color.
2. Drop several small pieces of dry
ice into the graduated cylinder
and watch what happens.
3. The water will cycle through
colors before finally turning red,
indicating a strong acid.
WHY DOES THE COLOUR OF THE RED CABBAGE INDICATOR TURN YELLOW ON ADDING PIECES OF DRY ICE? IT SHOULD TURN RED DUE TO THE FORMATION OF CARBONIC ACID
Its muffin magic! Thats how the red cabbage indicator turns yellow.
When the solution turns clear what is the pH level of that solution??!!