Flame Test Lab Report

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Solution A
The flame test produced a lighter orange flame indicating there was not a combustion reaction (shown in Table 2). The colour pink indicates that the cation Cobalt (Co2+) is present in a solution. Since the solution A was originally observed as a pink, transparent liquid, it was determined that the Cobalt was present in solution A. The litmus test results indicated that this solution is neutral (Table 2), therefore the anion found within the solution must abide by this. It was determined from the litmus results and Table 4 that the possible anions present in solution A were Cl-, NO3-, and SO42-. In order to determine the anion in the solution, Cl-, NO3-, and SO42- were compared. The anion Cl- produces precipitate with solutions C, E and F, while the NO3- and SO42- ion do not produce precipitate with all three. Therefore, the solution A must be CoCl2.

Solution B …show more content…

Since Barium (Ba2+) is the only cation in this experiment which has this property, it was determined that the cation for this solution must be Ba2+. The solution was determined to be neutral, based on the litmus test results in Table 2. The anions which form a precipitate with Ba2+ were identified to be Cl-, NO3-, and SO42- using Table 4. Since precipitate was observed to be formed between solution B and solutions C,D, and F in the experiment, the possible anions were compared to determine which one followed these properties. Using the information in table 4, Cl- was declared the anion evident in solution B. Therefore, the solution B must be

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