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Provide Evidence in a prosecution field Experiments to Provide Evidence in a Prosecution Case with the Pervis acetum Company on Unknown Toxins The aim of this experiment is to mold sieves on two samples of acetum, one that is commercially practiced and the other non (from the Pervis Company) to sterilise the unknown toxin contained in the Pervis Vinegar. Materials * Numerous Beakers/Conical Flasks * Phenolphthalein Indicator * buret * Numerous Test Tubes * Sticky Tape * Test Tube wedge * Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) * Calculator * Sample of Commercially Safe Vinegar * 2 Surgical Swabs (large cotton bud) * Sample of Pervis Vinegar (Toxic) * 2 agar Gel Plates * Universal Indicator * Incubator Oven * Incubator * Bunsen Burner * irrigate * 2 Small Syringes * Potassium Chromate Solution * Hydrochloric Acid Methods To fully determine and identify the unknown toxin gratuity in the Pervis vinegar sample, four tests were needed. A molarity test was completed, a sample of the vinegar wa s then allowed to adopt on an agar plate to ascertain whether bacteria were present and a pH test would also be done. The final test was a precipitant test to discover if the heavy metal Lead was present in the Pervis sample. A titration experiment was now set up victimization Sodium Hydroxide resolving as the alkali in the burette with a molarity 0.01177 and 25ML of Pervis vinegar was fixed in the beaker underneath the burette. about four drops of Phenolphthalein indicator where added to the Pervis vinegar and then the metrical amounts of NaOH were slowly added to the vinegar. The burette needed to be refilled several times and the average amount of NaOH solution needed to neutralise the Pervis vinegar was 181.5 ML. That same experiment was then move using commercially safe vinegar in the beaker below the burette. iv drops of Phenolphthalein indicator were again placed in the vinegar and then measured amounts of NaOH were released from the burette into the beaker. This was c ompleted three tines with the average NaOH needed to neutralise the safe vinegar approximately 154.5 ML. These amounts for the NaOH added were then recorded for later analysis. The pH test was now done with both samples of vinegar. Two test tubes were placed in a test tube holder and 14ML of each sample of vinegar poured into one of the test tubes. About two drops of Universal Indicator were placed in the test tubes and the reaction colourers were recorded for later use.