Shred red cabbage ~ (3/4 of a very small head)
Put the cabbage pieces in a small container ~ ( you can use a Pyrex-4-cup measure, a bowl or even a plastic zipper bag)
Cover the cabbage with very hot water. Let it sleep until the water has cooled. (somewhere between lukewarm and room-temperature)
The purple liquid you've made is your indicator.
Pour it into a container and compost the cabbage.
Now look for substances that may be acids or bases.
Liquids are good, like fruits.
You can also use solids around for baking are good too. (such as baking soda, salt, sugar, cream of tartar...)
Get containers for mixing (such as tea cups, because they are small, shallow and white inside)
Pour the indicator into the tea cups and add an acid or base.
Lemon juice, rice wine vinegar, and apple cider vinegar, turn the cabbage-water indicator into a pink.
Orange juice or fresh oranges (same thing) turn the cabbage-water indicator into an orangish-pinkish color.
Baking soda turns the cabbage-water indicator blue.
Milk (non-fat) turns the cabbage-water indicator turn opaque and milky, yet purple.
An egg white (which won't get into the solution immediately until after a lot of stirring) turns the cabbage-water indicator blue.
Hint:
Bases mostly turn the indicator towards blue-ish colors such as purple, light blue, dark blue, opaque blue...
Acids mostly turn the indicator towards pink-ish colours such as orange-ish pink, floral pink...
(You'll have to keep on testing the cabbage-water indicator in after a day or two to see if the indicator quality persists or degrades.
The question is incomplete, the complete question is;
Chris the Chemist was working in the lab, and he wanted to see what would happen if he put copper chloride into a Bunsen burner flame. As soon as he put it in the flame, it began to emit a green color. Which of these BEST describes this outcome?
A) The heat split the nucleus and created a new element.
B) As the copper chloride was heated, electrons were turned into neutrons.
C) As the electrons moved to a higher energy level, a photon of light is emitted.
D) When excited electrons return back to the ground state, a photon of light is emitted.
Answer:
D) When excited electrons return back to the ground state, a photon of light is emitted.
Explanation:
According to Bohr's model of the atom, electrons may absorb energy and move up to higher energy levels.
These electrons quickly return to ground state from such higher energy excited states thereby emitting the excess energy absorbed during excitation.
If the higher energy level is E2 and the ground state is E1 then the energy of the photon emitted when the electron descends from energy level E2 to E1 is;
ΔE = E2 - E1
This photon emitted accounts for the green colour of the copper salt observed when it was heated.
Döbereiner grouped the known elements into <em>triads</em> (sets of three) so that
• The <em>atomic mass of the middle element</em> was approximately the average of the other two
• The <em>chemical properties of the middle element</em> were between those of the other two
• The <em>physical properties of the middle element</em> were between those of the other two
One example of a triad is Li – Na – K.
(a) Atomic mass of Na = 23.0 u
Average atomic mass of Li and K = (6.9 u + 39.1 u)/2 = 46.0 u/2 = 23.0 u
(b) Li reacts slowly with water. Na reacts rapidly. Potassium reacts violently.
(c) Melting point of Na = 371 °C.
Average melting point of Li and K = (454 °C + 330 °C)/2 = 784 °C/2
= 392 °C
HNO3+NaOH ----> H2O
H⁺ +NO3⁻+Na⁺+OH⁻ ---> Na⁺ +NO3⁻ +H2O
H⁺ (aq)+OH⁻(aq)----> H2O(l)
Within the options, we have four organic compounds. Let's see what the skeletal structure of the compounds is in order to identify them better:
The first compound CH3OCH3 has two methyl groups linked by a carbon atom, this type of compound is called an Ether
The second compound has a double bond, it is badly written but it seems that is an alkene.
The third compound has two methyl groups linked by nitrogen atoms, therefore will be an amine.
The last compound has a hydroxyl group, therefore it is an alcohol
Answer:
CH3OCH3 Ether
CH2CH2CHCH2CH3 Alkene
CH3NHCH3 Amine
CH3CH(OH)CH₂CH3 Alcohol
