Some carbonated beverages are made by forcing carbon dioxide gas into a beverage solution. When a bottle of one kind of carbonated beverage is first opened, the beverage has a pH value of 3.

State, in terms of the pH scale, why this beverage is classified as acidic.

Using Table M, identify one indicator that is yellow in a solution that has the same pH value as this beverage.

After the beverage bottle is left open for several hours, the hydronium ion concentration in the beverage solution decreases to 1/1000 of the original concentration. Determine the new pH of the beverage solution.

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Fisher Villa

7 March, 15:46

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Janet Horne · Answer 1

It is considered an Acid because it has a pH which is below neutral, A universal indicator would give yellow color at 3 pH, the new pH will be 5