Hi I prepared an ammonium acetate solution by adding some phenolphthalein solution to the ammonia, Then adding vinegar till the pink went away. I then
boiled it down and now the solution is a dark red solution. Do you know why this may be?
Thanks.
It was household vinegar and ammonia.
[Edited on 18-4-2014 by copperastic]thesmug - 18-4-2014 at 11:04
You ended up with an excess of ammonia, which is very common. It probably shouldn't be an issue. smaerd - 18-4-2014 at 11:07
Try adding some cold anhydrous alcohol (ethanol, methanol, isopropanol/whatever) to your 'ammonium acetate'. See if it's the phenolphthalein.
I didn't do anything to it. That makes me think that some carbon monoxide might've came off from the decomposition of the phenolphthalein.smaerd - 18-4-2014 at 11:51
Looks like some very charred organic material (phenolphthalein).
It was ammonium acetate.copperastic - 18-4-2014 at 13:22
Also i added 2 drops of 1 percent solution of phenolphaethlien in isopropanol.
I think I spelled those 2 chemicals wrong...thesmug - 18-4-2014 at 13:46
Isopropanol is right, phenolphthalien, you replaced the th with aethcopperastic - 18-4-2014 at 13:48
That's weird it said isopropanol was spelled wrong.vmelkon - 21-4-2014 at 06:10
So why don't you do the experiment again with the amounts that you know for ammonia and vinegar and this time, don't add the phenolphthalien.
