Blue litmus paper turns red in acidic solution, and red litmus paper turns blue in basic solution. |
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The debate over these little-known acts was a litmus test of the issues that lie hidden beneath Australia's rapid urbanisation. |
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Their presence can be taken as the unfailing indicator, the litmus test, as it were, that the system under operation is a kakistocracy. |
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During the 1660s, Robert Boyle discovered that certain plant extracts, such as litmus, can be used to distinguish acids from bases. |
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In the name of the sick whose inequality we lament, we would become inegalitarian supporters of litmus tests for human dignity. |
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According to some who have worked there, the White House counsel's office doesn't run candidates through an ideological litmus test. |
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Now it appears that the infallible litmus test of whether one is on the right track is whether most people think the contrary. |
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If the litmus test for aerospace integration is completely interchangeable air and space communities, such a goal is probably unrealistic. |
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The first is that, once again, we have legislation that is a litmus test in terms of the difference between this Government and the Opposition. |
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The self-proclaimed American Bard, Whitman has also come to be seen as the litmus test for the literature of American democracy. |
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Under the Federal Guidelines of 1971, statistical representation became the litmus test of discrimination. |
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Well, the main litmus test, and it's written into the law, is that the U.S. parent company cannot directly manage or directly own the subsidiary. |
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By the 1900s, it had become the litmus test of public health among the medical profession and the urban middle class. |
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Making litmus paper change colour was uninspiring and dissecting enormous rats was a lesson more steeped in butchery than anatomy. |
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Ideas and the right to criticise them are the litmus test of a free society. |
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Acids are typically corrosive, sour to the taste, turn litmus paper red, react with some metals to liberate hydrogen, and neutralize bases. |
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When adequately lavaged use litmus paper to ensure that eye pH is neutral immediately after the lavage is completed and again 10 minutes later. |
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Test pH with an inexpensive soil testing kit available at hardware and lawn and garden centers, or with litmus paper sold at drugstores. |
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A litmus paper can be used to find out whether the soil is acidic, alkaline or neutral. |
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In the presence of a basic solution, litmus will lose hydronium ions and turn blue. |
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My other reason is selfish I guess, maybe I'm using it as a litmus test to uncover kindred spirits that enjoy the same things that I do. |
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Copenhagen will be the litmus test of our commitment to an ambitious, allinclusive climate change agreement. |
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If blue litmus paper is used, it remains blue in colour when dipped in the tap water. |
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These include chemically treated litmus paper used to determine the presence of chemical agents. |
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The pH value can be measured using electrochemical measuring systems, litmus paper, indicators and colorimeters. |
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Unlike the litmus paper, the red cabbage paper gets its color with a little delay. |
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The laboratory consists of one room, some litmus paper on a shelf and a microscope. |
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The guidelines have been referred to in many ways: a check, a cross-check, a litmus test, a useful tool and a starting point. |
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The Review Conference in 2010 will be a true litmus test of the resolve of the key participants. |
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Better outcomes for consumers are the ultimate goal of all single market policies and the litmus test for their success. |
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That's the litmus test for discrimination under Supreme Court jurisprudence these days. |
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Not surprisingly, the battle ends up always be the litmus test of all style. |
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The litmus test is this: does a proposed change help meet the challenge posed by a virulent threat? |
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It can be seen as a litmus test of the political will to avoid new global or regional arms races in the nuclear field. |
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The ability to do so constitutes a litmus test of the effectiveness and relevance of central agencies. |
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By its very nature, road transport and, in particular, international road transport can also be seen as a litmus test for trade barriers. |
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Canada's policies and practice in international cooperation are a litmus test of our commitment to global human security. |
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Science and research policies already constitute a litmus test in this respect. |
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But does he transgress defining ideological litmus tests and potentially put himself beyond the pale of party acceptability? |
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It will be a litmus test to see whether the government really wants to tackle gas price gouging or if it is all just political positioning. |
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Let me say this: if elected president, I will have a litmus test in terms of my nominee to be a supreme court justice. |
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Our network seriously failed to meet the various litmus tests of coherency, value for money, and effectiveness. |
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Traditionally, innovation is seen as being generated by entrepreneurs, with the market as litmus test. |
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Bin them, recycle them or find them new homes, but commit to beautility by beginning to give the useful pride of place today and resolving to make it the litmus test for every new purchase tomorrow. |
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The Veterans of Foreign Wars organized an americanization committee that promoted the song as a litmus test of loyalty. |
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The GOP front-runner refused to take an antiabortion litmus test, putting support from the religious right at risk. |
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Clarity of expression is something Mayer prizes so dearly that she uses it as a litmus test when evaluating new ideas. |
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A few weeks later, so did the litmus paper in one of his urine tests. |
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Earth's greatest scientists work around the clock to avert disaster, finally resolving the problem with the careful use of test tubes, Bunsen burners, and litmus paper. |
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We might, for example, give up the claim that this liquid is an acid, or the claim that this is a piece of litmus paper, or the claim we are not hallucinating, etc. |
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The law, therefore, is unreliable sociological litmus paper. |
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Call it a litmus test of his, and the sport's, marketability. |
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We had a four-part litmus test for the tax cuts that we adopted. |
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Interest group activity may provide a litmus test for the degree to which the supranational institutions of the EU exercise independent influence over the policy process. |
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But the litmus test for engagement, I always think, is the kids. |
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But the CEOs on our list point to golf as a litmus test of honesty. |
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If he wins, they will say it was because he campaigned as a committed conservative who checked the box on every litmus test. |
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Their views and opinions on the development of our relations serve as a kind of litmus test of cooperation between our countries and help us to get rid of hackneyed stereotypes. |
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Landmark events like the Festival of Britain and the Olympics present an opportunity to gauge the spirit of the times and provide a litmus test for the health of society and democracy. |
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Something which is politically trendy can become a litmus test for political correctness, and the situation can result in a race to see who is keenest to be on the side of everything that is good. |
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The unknown concentration can then be calculated from the amount of known reagent used. In Dr Nersesian's titration the litmus was a species called the brushtail possum. |
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Richard Dicker, head of international justice at Human Rights Watch in New York, said Libya's actions over the two suspects would be the litmus test of its commitment to democracy and the rule of law. |
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The ranges could provide a check or litmus test to assess the positions of the parties in settlement conferences or in argument in hearings and trials. |
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How can he apply a litmus test without answering that question. |
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The government must continuously scrutinize where and how it spends taxpayer dollars to ensure that programs and services pass the litmus test of providing value for money. |
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Leaving aside all conscious or subconscious reasons for approaching the SFO, for every secular Franciscan a life of fraternity, life in the Fraternity represents the litmus paper of his vocation. |
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Somewhat confusingly, he asserts that ideological litmus tests are OK when they are applied to judges, but not to cabinet appointees. |
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Temple, under its new coach, Ray Morrison, formerly of Vanderbilt, will be put to the blue litmus test Friday night when it takes on Georgetown. |
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We have no such compunctions about language, thus, accent becomes a litmus test for exclusion, and excuse to turn away, to recognize the other. |
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The right-wing base and media will make it a litmus test issue. |
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Beretta's political litmus test is stringent. |
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Test the tank water with litmus paper before reusing the tank. |
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The society has been gradually militarised over the years, and the litmus test for the state of human rights, freedom of religion and the rights of minorities, has shown that these are restricted. |
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The Fund's Third Voluntary Replenishment Conference, hosted by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in October 2010, provides the litmus test of global solidarity of our era. |
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This range is checked and controlled by the water authorities. pH values can be determined using what is known as colour indicators such as litmus paper or electrical equipment for measuring pH values. |
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The litmus test should prove a useful deterrent to youngsters drinking in public and causing problems as a result. |
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The refugees are the litmus paper of peace in northern Mali. |
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For example, the conduct of cases such as the resumption of the Khodorkovsky trial will be a kind of litmus paper for us regarding the rule of law in Russia. |
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If blue litmus paper is used to test the water, it remains blue. |
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If this does not happen, it will remain an extremely important symbolic moment, especially due to the fact that it has functioned as a litmus paper. |
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She considers the upcoming experience in Namibia to be a kind of litmus test that may indicate whether she should continue to pursue a career in teaching or switch her focus to international development. |
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Speed of change is often seen as the litmus test of effectiveness. |
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Given that the region will remain an economic powerhouse, Asia remains a key litmus test of whether economic and environmental interests and needs can be balanced successfully. |
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Investors viewed the IPO as a crucial litmus test to determine whether other hedge funds will follow Fortress onto the stock market. |
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It may be said that it would be a litmus test of the actual progress made by Europe towards unification and of the prevalence of thinking based on the values of truly Western civilisation rather than pure pragmatism. |
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But when did they become the litmus test of competence in office? |
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We often talk of ordinary Iraqis as the litmus test for recovery, but even over these few short weeks, I have come to think of them as extraordinary Iraqis. |
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The natural world is the litmus paper of the health of our environment. |
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The litmus test, say experts, will be how quickly the two sides move ahead with confidence-building measures that can pave the way to a viable solution. |
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The oldest, most commonly used acid-base indicator, litmus, is a mixture of several oxazine derivatives, obtained by treating various species of lichens with ammonia, potash, and lime. |
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Fundamentally, achievement, capability, potential combined with knowledge, skills and abilities commensurate with identified leadership competencies could become the litmus test for senior officer appointment. |
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The policies and practices required to do so are, in many ways, a litmus test of a city's political will to improve urban governance for the benefit of all of its citizens and for a better and more sustainable future. |
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You don't know whether to grab a fork or a piece of litmus paper. |
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The extent to which second generation Canadians see themselves as an integral part of the overall narrative of their society is something of a litmus test for the civic groundedness of pluralism in Canada. |
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The new Swizzle Stick, which can detect 46 different drugs, works like litmus paper, changing colour if the drink has been tampered with. |
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I don't want to count the scatterguns I now own, but the number is embarrassing.Because I love hunting pheasants, it's become my litmus test for judging upland scatterguns. |
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That match was the first of many litmus tests for four-time Southern Section-champion Chaminade, which meets Hart, Buena and Westlake over the next two weeks. |
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She added that Pax Christi supports a consistent ethic of life but refuses to use single-issue litmus tests to judge the moral fitness of any individual. |
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