


Blue cobalt chloride paper turns pink simulator#
Simulator Procedure (as performed through the Online Labs) Note the time taken by the cobalt chloride paper to change its blue colour to pink.Clip the slides together using binder clips.Take two glass slides and place one over the upper and the other over the lower side of the leaf.Place the dried strips of cobalt chloride paper: one on the upper and the other on the lower surface of a leaf of the potted plant.Take the dry pieces of cobalt chloride paper from the wire gause.Select one healthy leaf and clean the leaf to remove the water droplets using a filter paper.The filter paper becomes blue in colour on drying.Place the strips on the wire gause to allow them to dry.Remove the strips from the solution using forceps.Keep the strips in the solution for 3-5 minutes.Take some filter paper strips and dip them in the cobalt chloride solution.

Take 3 % cobalt chloride solution from beaker and pour into the Petri dish.
