Mrs Brown brought some red cabbage to school and explained that we were going to use it to find out whether a liquid was an acid or a base... How are we going to do that? First we chopped the cabbage in to strips and placed it into a bowl. Mrs Brown poured some boiling water into the bowl. After a few minutes we extracted the purple cabbage water from the bowl and put it into cups... This purple water is our indicator! We took turns adding acids and bases to the indicator these are some pictures of us discovering...
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Writing down our observations.
