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At least his answer had been accepted as good, Professor Noble hadn’t cast it away as repetition. It made Cole’s spirits lift just a little. What came after even brought a small smile to his face. He always liked doing something with his hands over just reading or listening to a lecture. He learned better that way and he took that after his father. Listening and watching closely to the demonstration of the activity Cole jotted down the steps to perform as prof Noble showed them. It looked easy enough which he was very glad for on this particular day.
Opening his textbook to the mentioned page of 259 he quickly skimmed over the facts about the Litmus and Benedict solutions. Cole got the instinct feeling that’d be hard to not mix up the two, but he’d do his best and hopefully wouldn’t end up causing any trouble. When they got the signal to start he was among the first students to get the required test tubes and the brown bottle of Litmus solution.
Back at his desk Cole set up the test tubes in Professor Noble’s order and poured a few or really 3 drops of litmus solution into each tube. Peering down at the liquids he saw no immediate change and started second guessing if he had seen and done wrong. Cole was about to signal for Professor Noble when the acid tubes of vinegar and lemon juice turned very red and the baking soda turned sea blue. Success!
He was relieved and thought he was done, but then he remembered the second part and made a grimace behind his hands hoping the nobody saw him. Getting up from his seat Cole headed over to the professor’s desk to fill a test tube with whole teaspoon of sugar. He then proceeded to pour in 20ml of water and 5 drops of sucrose into the test tube. Going over to the burner he held the test tube over the flame and waited for a reaction. Cole stood and watched the sugar turned first orange and then red, but before he could do anything else he stumbled backwards, dropping his tube on the floor as he turned to Professor Noble confused. "Professor I think I seared my fingers a little...but it doesn't hurt."
To Professor Noble’s question Cole answered even if his mind was on his pained fingers.."A pro could be that laboratories can get fast results on what ailment a patient in St Mungos is suffering from with the use of these solutions..."
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