You have been provided with three test tubes. One of them contains distilled water and the other two have an acidic solution and a basic solution respectively. If you are given red litmus paper, how will you identify the contents of each test tube?
You have been provided with three test tubes. One of them contains distilled water and the other two have an acidic solution and a basic solution respectively. If you are given red litmus paper, how will you identify the contents of each test tube?

We know that the bases turn red litmus into blue.

Therefore, when a drop is placed in each test tube on a red litmus paper that turns blue can easily be seen as a base. After that, the remaining test tubes contain refined water or acid.

Now, find out exactly the content of these test kits – a drop of the basic solution is mixed with the drop of each solution in the remaining ones separately and take into account the nature of the compound drops.

If the red litmus color turns blue, the second solution is neutral and if there is no change in color, the second solution is acidic.

In the sense of neutrality, we know that acidic and basic solutions are declining. Therefore, we can distinguish between three types of solutions and identify the contents of each test tube.