Tests For Cations Flashcards
What colour is lithium
Crimson flame
What colour is sodium
Yellow flame
What colour is potassium
Lilac flame
What colour is calcium
Orange red flame
What colour is copper
Greeen
What can be used to test that Ions flames
Clean a flat in Luke by dipping it in some dilute hydrochloric acid and holding it over the blue flame of a Bunsen burner
Calcium colour when added to sodium hydroxide
White
Copper colour when added to sodium hydroxide
Blue
Iron (II) colour when added to sodium hydroxide
Green
Iron (III)colour when added to sodium hydroxide
Brown
Colour does aluminium form when added with sodium hydroxide
White at first but then re-dissolves into access sodium hydroxide to form a colourless solution
Magnesium with sodium hydroxide
White