A two-day (2) extension service devotedly provided by the Chemistry Department of Tarlac State University's College of Science. "Technical Consultation on Gumamela Flower Extract as a Green Alternative for Acid-Base Indicator" is the title of the said extension service. Titration had used many more signs to find the end point of detection, but they are costly to maintain and quite often out of reach. Nevertheless, the reason for conducting this investigation is to evaluate Gumamela as a green substitute for an acid-base indicator. Due to the abundance and accessibility of these plants, as well as the essence that the indicators created by them have been established to be commercially successful.
Moreover, the experts from the Department of Chemistry, Prof. Claire Lagrana, Ms. Angelica Tabamo, and Mr. Jadriel Meg Cabanding, actively contributed to the execution and completion of the two-day extension program. Prior to the essential execution of experimentation, on February 28, 2023, the Tarlac Montessori School students who performed as the extension's beneficiaries held a consensus dialogue to explore potential appropriate strategies. Furthermore, it was shown that supplying inputs and techniques increased the experimentation's consistence and efficiency.
In light of this, on March 30, 2023, the students performed the experiment under the mentorship of the faculty from COS, who also planned all the equipment needed for the experiment using the acid-base indicator in employing extract from Gumamela flower.
Furthermore, the common and expensive indicators for these titrations are manufactured. Also, some of them might pollute the environment and have hazardous consequences on the consumers. Concerns concerning the hunt for greener sources of acid-base indicators have grown for these and other reasons. As such, the search for natural indicators for acid-base titration that are less dangerous or even non-toxic, environmentally advantageous. Hence, the extension service indeed contributed to the Sustainable Development Goal 4: Excellent Education has started. This kind of action, which is occasionally the result of our curiosity, can help us develop and broaden our knowledge by turning what can seem uncommon into something important.
