Lesson: Identifying Salts

In this lesson, we will learn how to identify salts from combinations of flame and precipitation tests and how to predict the outcome of these experiments.

Worksheet: 11 Questions

Q1:

Which sodium salts contain halide ions?

Which sodium salts form aqueous solutions that turn red litmus paper blue?

Which sodium salt reacts with nitric acid to produce a colorless gas?

Which sodium salt has the smallest molar mass?

Q2:

Which of the following pairs of compounds would not react in water to produce a colored precipitate?

Q3:

What is the name of the metallic element in the salt?

What is the name of the anion in the salt?

If sodium hydroxide is added to the salt solution before the reaction with , a different result is obtained. Which of the following images, most accurately, represents the outcome of this reaction?

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