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September 27, 2013 at 8:59 am
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Hi Marybeth, Carr McLean sells two different pens with different chemical solution. The Abbey pen is for testing pH and contains chlorophenol red in the felt tip. The groundwood test pen contains a corrosive/toxic acid – hydrochloric acid (muriatic) but works the same way in that a line drawn on paper sample to be tested changes colour in presence of groundwood pulp.