During lab experiments especially in chemistry, we are always told to take a reading at bottom of the meniscus for colourless liquids and the upper meniscus of coloured liquids. A student while performing various experiments sometimes gets confused which meniscus to use when. Without knowing the reason why it is mandated thus, it sometimes becomes very confusing.
Before we begin our discussions on this, let us understand what we mean by the Meniscus.
The free surface of a liquid called meniscus, assumes a flat, convex or concave shape, depending on the solid and liquid surface. The meniscus is the curve in the upper surface of a liquid close to the surface of the container or another object, caused by surface tension. It can either be convex or concave, depending on the liquid and the surface.
In the above figure,
A: The bottom of a concave meniscus.
B: The top of a convex meniscus.
Now coming back to the original question, why should we record the reading at the lower meniscus of colourless liquid and at the upper meniscus of coloured liquid?
In the case of colourless liquid, it is easy to observe the phase boundary, whether it is convex or concave hence in the colourless liquid lower meniscus may be considered. A meniscus is the curvature of the surface of the water. Water "sticks" to the walls of the graduated cylinder, but only on the sides and not the middle. When students look at the surface, the water level is not straight. Measurement should be therefore done at the lowest point.
However, in the case of coloured liquids observing this phase boundary (spatial interface, called a phase boundary) is not possible, hence only the upper meniscus is considered.
When you perform an experiment in the lab, it is always better to know the fact and reason of every experiment procedure that is adopted.
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