Red Cabbage indicator

The red cabbage indicator that I am using works fine. However it looks rather red, further investigation and starting discussion on Science Forums about this, suggested a cause and solution.

In essence the indicator is acidic, hence the read colour rather than the purple neutral colour.

I have now made up a new batch, which looks a lot better

new batch of indicator

The image above illustrates the old indicator on the right hand side, the new is in the beaker on the left. You can see quite a big difference in colour.

I have extracted the pH colour scale from the original infographic below

pH Scale

Video

There is a 3 min Video here that I made while making the new batch of indicator up.

Discussion

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