Analysing Substances

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What colour flame does lithium give when burnt?
Red
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Which metal is yellow when burnt?
Sodium
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what colour does barium give when burnt?
Green
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what metal turns a flame lilac?
Potassium
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what metal turns the flame brick red?
Calcium
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What do you add to the unknown substance to test for a halide?
silver nitrate and dilute nitric acid
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what colour would it turn if it contained chloride?
white
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what does it mean if the substance mixed with nitric acid and silver nitrate went cream?
it contained bromide.
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what does it mean if the substance went yellow?
it contained iodine
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what do you add to calcium to make it a white precipitate?
sodium hydroxide
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what does it mean if sodium chloride and the unknown substance turned blue?
it contained copper
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what does Fe(II) turn to when mixed with sodium hydroxide?
green
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what does Fe(III) turn to when mixed with sodium hydroxide?
brown
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what colour does magnesium go when mixed with sodium hydroxide?
white
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what colour does aluminium go when mixed with some sodium hydroxide?
white
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how do you test if an unknown substance is a carbonate?
add the dilute acid to limewater
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what would the mixture look like for a positive reading for carbonate?
milky and it fizzes
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which substance changes colour when you add an excess of NaOH? What colour does it turn to?
Aluminium- clear/colouless
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adding barium chloride to the dilute acid is a test for what?
sulphate
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what does the mixture look like if it was positive for barium?
a white precipitate
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Which metal is yellow when burnt?

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Sodium

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what colour does barium give when burnt?

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what metal turns a flame lilac?

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what metal turns the flame brick red?

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