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                                        Acid-Base Indicators






               Acid-Base indicator is a substance that has a certain color at a
               certain pH.


               Table 7. pH range



























                                                                     (Martin S. Silberberg, 2000)


                   1. Natural indicators



                     Many naturan dyes found in

                fruits,  vegetables,  and  flowers
                act      as      naturally       occuring

                indicators  by  changing  color
                with  changes  in  then  pH  of

                solutions. One of them is extract
                of  purple  cabbage.  The  extract

                of  purple  cabbage  contains                     Figure 22.  From left to right are the
                anthocyanin  pigment.  Figure  1.4                color  of  purple  cabbage  extract
                shows  the  color  of  purple                     solutions of pH 1, 4, 7, 10, and 13

                cabbage  extract  in  solutions                   Sumber:  Whitten,  Davis  and  Peck,
                within the pH range of 1 to 13.                   2008)
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