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noun

a strip of paper impregnated with litmus, used as a chemical indicator.

Origin:
1795–1805

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litmus paper n.
An unsized white paper impregnated with litmus and used as a pH or acid-base indicator.

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Litmus paper will turn color if there is acid in the water and it will stay the

same if there is not.

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bases.

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"A playwright ... is ... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great."

-Arthur Miller