Flame Test Of The Elements Experiment

Tags:: Chemistry Sodium Potassium Strontium Barium Copper Lithium Salt Flames Fireworks Color Spectra

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The flame test is used to visually determine the identity of an unknown metal of an ionic salt based on the characteristic color the salt turns the flame of a bunsen burner.

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Where are the explosions?
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By Numb Nutz 1182006886 Reply Spam [+3] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~4559940~~
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Better results
You would have much better results if you simply added your salts to some methyl alcohol in a watch glass and ignite it. Cesium, if you can afford the chloride, gives a very deep blue.
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Meet up with other people like you at MI
By robiniasoccerdollqc 1191478631 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~6456326~~
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wrong
barium gives an apple green flame
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And your conclusion is??
Very poor video!!
By HyHtHr 1182054483 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~4957515~~
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- Well
  I find it cool, I didn't know that burning Copper would give a lime color...
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sugestion
test more elements.
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- no need
  There is no point in testing more elements since most of them burns without any distinguishable color.
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secondary school chemistry
And your fire was too tense to show proper colors of the elements (hence you didn't have bright natrium, purple Kalium etc). Lithium was okey, though.
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Yawn
That was about as much fun as watching paint dry.
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Uh
I was never good at geography anyway ..
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