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 [...]
Genetic Taste Tests: Human Pedigree Symbols
Genetic taste test capabilities were inadvertently discovered in 1931 at DuPont Laboratories in the United States. Taste buds of various individuals can detect several salts, depending upon hereditary factors. These vary in intensity depending upon [...]
Glucose Experiment: Milk Makes Me Sick
In this glucose experiment, students can explore the basis of lactose intolerance using our Glucose test strips. This experiment is brought to you by Karen Kalumuck from Exploratorium. Check out the Exploratorium website for tons [...]
Halloween Candy Glucose Experiment
What’s better than dressing up as just about anything and getting free candy? A science experiment of course! Don’t worry, you’ll have plenty of candy to spare a few for a fun educational investigation. In [...]
Protein Error of Indicators: QAC & Protein Test Strips
All test strips have limitations, and we believe that if our customers know what those limitations are, they are better able to perform reliable tests with accurate results. We’ve touched upon the limitations of pH [...]
Lichens and Litmus and pH! Oh My!
Dorothy might have been more fascinated with lions and tigers and bears, but we’ve been making litmus paper since Precision began, and we think it’s just as fascinating. Like the Wizard of Oz, litmus paper [...]
The Human Eye: Perception of Color
We are often asked if we can make test strips or color charts in smaller, closer increments, and we always want to say “YES!”, but we sometimes have limitations. To understand color chart limitations, we [...]
Are you a Supertaster?
Genetic Taste Tests and What They Tell You Many human traits are determined by a single pair of alleles. An allele is an alternative form of a gene, located at a specific position on a [...]
Back to Basics: Acids, Bases & the pH Scale
Precision Laboratories & Precision Europe manufacture a wide variety of pH test strips, some narrow-range, wide-range, acidic, basic, and so on and so forth. But what is the meaning behind these pH measurements?! Okay, so [...]
DIY pH Experiment: Making a Natural pH Indicator
We make a whole range of pH test strips, so we thought it would be fun for you to try making your own pH indicator in this DIY pH Experiment. This experiment is brought to you by [...]