Ph Testing experiment

Aim: To test the pH of a range of household chemicals.

Equipment: A variety of household chemicals, spotting tile, red litmus paper, blue litmus paper, UI solution.

Method: 1. As a few drops of each chemical to a spot on your spotting tile. If a substance is solid or powered you will need to mix it with a few drops of water before testing it. 

2. Test the chemicals with litmus paper. 

3.Test each chemical with a few drops of UI (universal indicator). 

Results:

Chemical being tested	Colour in blue litmus	Colour in red litmus	Colour in UI
Dishwasher Powder	Blue	Blue	Blue
Floor Cleaner	Blue	Blue	Yellow
Toilet Cleaner	Red	Red	Red
Baking Soda	Blue	Blue	Blue

Chemical being tested	Acid or base?	Evidence from investigation
Dishwasher Powder	Base	Litmus paper and UI has turned blue
Floor Cleaner	Base	Both Litmus paper turned blue
Toilet Cleaner	Acid	Everything turned red
Baking Soda	Base	Everything turned blue

Conclusion/Discussion:  It turns out that Dishwasher powder, Floor cleaner and Baking soda are all bases while toilet cleaner is the only strong acid, by also using ROYGBIV, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet (ROYGBIV) is used to show the pH level of a chemical. Such as Red 1, a strong acid to 14 a strong base, and you're probably wanting to know what neutral is right? Its a pH of 7 Green which is basically water. A base is an acid opposite and will remove hydrogen ions from the solution, all bases have Hydroxide ions while acids have hydrogen ions.

Conclusion: Other than that our experiment did work but except for that one yellow you probably saw in the table, I'll guess I will have to try and do something different to make that a better result.