Der Pharmacia Lettre
Abstract
Author(s): Ramling Patrakar, Anant Deshpande, Sandip Walsangikar, Kamlesh Niranjane, Ajay Gadgul
Bombax malabaricum is a species of the bombax genus, belonging to the family malvaceae. The
present work highlights the use of Bombax malabaricum flower extract as an acid base indicator
in different types of acid base titrations. The equivalence points obtained by the flower extract
coincident with the equivalence points obtained by standard indicators. In case of weak acid and
weak base titration, the results obtained by the flower extract matched with the results obtained
by mixed indicator. This natural indicator was found to be a very useful, economical, simple and
accurate for the said titration.
