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What are indicators? What are they used for? Give some examples of naturally occurring indicators.

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  • Substances that exhibit a change of colour when added to acidic, basic and neutral solutions are called indicators.
  • Thus. they help us in deciding whether a given solution is acidic, basic or neutral in nature.
  • Litmus is an example of naturally occuring indicator.

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