ZINC SULPHATE

Experiment Observation Inference

Colour of thesalt colourless Absence of copper and iron salts

1.
Action of heat: Salt is yellow when
May be a zinc
2. A small amount of a saltis strongly hot and whitewhen
heated in a test tube cold

Flame test:
No characteristic flame Absence of Copper,
3. Take a small amount of salt in a watch Barium and calcium
glass. Add a drop of Conc. HCl to it
andform a paste. Take the paste at the
charred end of the splinter and
introduceit near the Bunsen flame
Dil H2SO4Test :
No characteristic gas Absence of carbonate and acetate
4. To a pinch of salt dil H2SO4 was
added and heat.

Action of MnO2 and Conc. H2SO4 :

No characteristic change. Absence of Chloride,Bromide
5. Salt + MnO2 + Conc. H2SO4 + Heat

Copper turning test :

No reddish brown gas Absence of Nitrate
6. Salt + Copper turnings + Conc.
H2SO4 + Heat

Chromyl chloride test:

No red orange vapours evolved Absence of Chloride
7. salt + potassium dichromate +
Conc. H2SO4.+ Heat

Ammonium molybdate test:

No canary yellow precipitate Absence of phosphate
8. sodium carbonate extract + dil
HNO3
(until the effervescence ceases) +
ammonium molybdate + Conc.
HNO3
Ester test : Take a pinch of
No characteristic smell is observed. Absence of acetate
9. salt in a dry test tube and add to it
1 ml of Conc H2So4and 4-5 drops
of ethyl alcohol . Heat the contents
of the test tube and smell.

Preparation of sodium carbonate extract:

1g salt + 3g solid sodium carbonate + 20g of distilled water to it. After boiling the solution for few mins,
filter and collect the filtrate. The filtrate is called sodium carbonate extract.
 10. Test for Silver nitrate : sodium carbonate No characteristic precipitate Absence of Chloride,
extract + dil. HNO3 (until the effervescence Bromide and Sulphide
ceases) + AgNO3.

11. Test with barium chloride:

sodium carbonate extract + dil. HCl A white ppt is formed insoluble Presence of sulphate is
(until the effervescence ceases) + barium in dil HCl confirmed
chloride solution

12. Brown ring test: sodium carbonate extract +

dil. H2SO4 (until the effervescence ceases) + No brown ring is formed Absence of Nitrate
freshly prepared ferrous sulphate solution.
Then keeping the test tube in a slanting
position add Conc. H2SO4 along the sides of
the test tube.
13 Lead acetate test: White precipitate soluble in Presence of
To the aqueous solution of the salt add 2 excess of ammonium acetate sulphate is
to 3 drops of acetic acid and add lead solution. confirmed.
acetate solution

Confirmatory Test For ACID Radical

11. Test with barium chloride:
sodium carbonate extract + dil. HCl A white ppt is formed insoluble Presence of sulphate is
(until the effervescence ceases) + barium in dil HCl
chloride solution confirmed

PREPARATION OF ORIGINAL SALT SOLUTION:

For water soluble salt : A small amount of the salt was dissolved in 5 ml of water.

For water insoluble salt: A small amount of the salt was dissolved in 2 ml of hot dil HCl

Group Separation

1. Original Solution + NaOH + Nessler’s No Chocolate brown precipitate Absence of Ammonia

reagent

2. No White precipitate Absence of I group Lead

Original Solution + dil. HCl

3. No Black precipitate Absence of II group Copper

Original Solution + dil. HCl + H2S gas

No White precipitate Absence of III group Al, Fe

4. Original Solution + NH4Cl + NH4OH

5. Original Solution + NH4Cl + NH4OH + Dirty white precipitate is formed. Presence of IV group Zinc
H2S gas
 Confirmatory Test For Basic Radicals
To 1 ml of the salt solution , Presence of Zn2+confirmed
few drops of NaOH solution was added. White precipitate was obtained which
dissolves on adding excess of NaOH
solution.

RESULT:
1. The given simple salt contains
Acid radical : SULPHATE
Basic radical : ZINC
The given simple salt : ZINC SULPHATE