litmus paper

English

Noun

litmus paper (countable and uncountable, plural litmus papers)

Paper containing a water-soluble mixture of different dyes extracted from certain lichens. The resulting piece of paper is used to test materials for acidity.

Translations

test paper

Chinese:
Mandarin: 石蕊試紙 (zh), 石蕊试纸 (zh) (shíruǐshìzhǐ)
Crimean Tatar: lakmus kâğıtı
Czech: lakmusový papírek m
Finnish: lakmuspaperi (fi)
French: papier de tournesol (fr) m
Georgian: ლაკმუსის ქაღალდი (laḳmusis kaɣaldi)
German: Lackmuspapier (de) n
Greek: χαρτί ηλιοτροπίου n (chartí iliotropíou)
Hebrew: נְיַיר לַקְמוּס‎‎ (he) m

Japanese: リトマス紙 (ritomasu shi)
Malay: kertas litmus
Polish: papierek lakmusowy m
Portuguese: papel de tornassol m
Russian: ла́кмусовая бума́га f (lákmusovaja bumága)
Spanish: papel de tornasol m
Swedish: lackmuspapper (sv) n
Tagalog: tornasol
Turkish: turnusol (tr), turnusol kağıdı

Further reading

litmus paper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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