Methyl Orange Indicator
Posted: 27 Mar 2014, 10:43
Hi all
I have been working slowly through my new GHS labelling and have found a slight discrepancy with methyl orange indicator. In our Labbie Bible ie "the Laboratory" the recipe adds 1g methyl orange to 200ml ethanol and 800ml water. This has a colour range of pH2.8-4.6. However on Chemwatch all the SDS's for the indicator do not use ethanol and the colour range is pH3.1-4.4 and also has Nil hazard (except the screened version which is different).
My question is: should I make it up the way in the book and therefore will need some kind of hazard grading or should I just use water?
Does anyone have any idea??
Thanks in advance
Kathryn
I have been working slowly through my new GHS labelling and have found a slight discrepancy with methyl orange indicator. In our Labbie Bible ie "the Laboratory" the recipe adds 1g methyl orange to 200ml ethanol and 800ml water. This has a colour range of pH2.8-4.6. However on Chemwatch all the SDS's for the indicator do not use ethanol and the colour range is pH3.1-4.4 and also has Nil hazard (except the screened version which is different).
My question is: should I make it up the way in the book and therefore will need some kind of hazard grading or should I just use water?
Does anyone have any idea??
Thanks in advance
Kathryn