Question

Samuel sets up the apparatus as shown in the set up around bottom flask is inverted into a beaker of water with a glass tube containing a drop of red ink. when the flask is heated with a gas burner Samuel obverse that the drop of red ink flows out of the tube and the water in the beaker turns slightly red. explain what caused the drop of red ink to flow out of the tube

Answer 1

Answer:

If a few drops of red litmus were put in the lower flask at the start of the experiment, the color of the water would change to blue as soon as it entered the upper flask and ammonia to dissolves to form an alkaline solution.