Lesson 2.8: Common Household Items

Lesson 2.8: Common Household Items

You have many items in your house that are acids and bases.  If you were given some information about an item such as orange juice, you should be able to now predict the effects of the substance on indicators, the extent of the conductivity, the approximate pH, and whether the substance as an acid or a base. 

Complete page 6 of the CD applet (if you have the disc).  Then, complete the following table with the missing information or refer to your textbook if you don't have the disc.

 

Question 1. Complete the following table.  You may have to refer to page 6 of the CD applet and to your textbook reading to get some of the pH values.

   

	Lemon Juice	Detergent	Coffee	Oven Cleaner	Baking Soda	Tomatoes
Red Litmus
Blue Litmus
Bromothymol Blue
Phenolphthalein
Conductivity
pH Reading
Acid/Base

 

Check your answers with those that follow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers to Questions:

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Now, do Assignment 4B.  Page forward to access the computer-scored assignment.