Testing pH Levels in Everyday Foods and Household Products
Here’s a fun rainy day experiment for you and your little ones. All you need are our pH 1-14 test strips, a little bit of time, and a few household products. This is an easy [...]
How Do I Use Your Phosphate Test Strips?
When we get frequent or interesting technical questions, we like to share those questions and answers with everyone. We add frequently asked questions and answers to our Knowledge Base regularly, but every once in a [...]
Can I use Precision test strips to test the pH of bodily fluids (urine, saliva, sweat, blood, etc)?
We get calls pretty regularly with questions regarding the use of our pH test strips and litmus papers to test bodily fluids, such as urine, saliva, sweat, and blood. We get these questions so often, [...]
Acid Rain Experiments: Measuring the pH of Natural Water
Today's experiment is brought to you by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a great resource for all types of information, including fun and interesting information for young scientists. In this experiment, you’re going to [...]
Measuring pH with Litmus Paper
Nearly everything around is an acid or a base, with the exception of water. Water is neither acidic nor basic, but rather neutral. Acidic substances tend to taste sour, for example, citrus fruits like lemons, [...]
Tech Talk with Home Science Tools: Mother’s Day Science Experiment
Next Sunday is Mother’s Day, so in honor of all the mothers out there, we’ve got a chemistry experiment from Home Science Tools that doubles as a gift! (Hold your applause.) Yes, that’s right. Not [...]
Low Blood Sugar Glucose Experiment
In this fun glucose experiment, we’re going to test a variety of foods and drinks to determine which contain the most glucose. People with diabetes may find this information useful, so they know which foods [...]
Testing the pH of Homemade Soap
Homemade soaps, cosmetics, and other personal care products are just some of the latest trends to hit the streets. Making these products at home ensures a controlled environment, where you select the ingredients and you [...]
50 Acid Base Reaction Experiments
Here at Precision Laboratories, we’re all about chemistry, and you might have noticed from our wide range of pH test strips that we’re obsessed with pH. From our most basic litmus papers to our narrow-range [...]
For the Love of pH Indicators
There’s something about a brightly colored pH scale and colorful pH paper that brings smiles to our faces and makes us happy. We get all starry-eyed and dreamy, and then we snap back to reality, [...]