Academic Science

Year 7 students have been exploring why some substances such as orange juice taste pleasantly tangy whilst other can have a very bitter taste by learning about the pH scale.

Whilst eating and drinking is strictly forbidden in the lab, the students have been testing a range of solutions to from hydrochloric acid which is found in our stomach to baking soda which is used to make cakes establish whether they were acidic, basic or just plain neutral. They discovered that vinegar used on our fish and chips is a weak acid whilst the detergent Fairy liquid forms an alkaline solution.