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FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PIGMENTS AS INDICATORS
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|May 9, 1930
Abstract:
(1) Solutions of many fruit pigments act as indicators. (2) These solutions are easily prepared and stable, and the pH range of their color changes is in most cases conveniently near the neutral point (3) As liquid indicators they can be used in titrating acids, but not bases (4)Their greatest usefulness depends upon the fact that very satisfactory test papers can be made with them in a simple and inexpensive way.
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