Salt Analysis

Object:-

To analyse one cation and one anion in the given salt [BaC ]

S. No Experiment Observation Inference

1. Colour of the salt No change ,
may be absent

2. Dry heating test

Heated a pinch of the salt in On heating, turned may be present.
a dry test tube. into yellow.

3. Flame Test
Made a paste of the salt in Apple green colour present.
conc. HCl and dipped the appeared.
clean Pt wire in the paste
and introduce it in the non-
luminous (oxidizing) flame.

4. Sodium hydroxide test

Heated a pinch of salt with like smell gas Zero group( )may be absent.
sodium hydroxide solution. is not evolved.

5. Took a small amount of White precipitate Group-I ( ) absent.

original solution (if did not appeared.
prepared in hot
concentrated HCl) in a
micro test tube and added
cold water to it and cooled
the test tube in tap water.
If original solution is
prepared in water and on
the addition of dilute HCl No precipitate GroupII( )absent.
6. In the above solution, appeared
added a few drops of
solution.

7. Took the original solution in No precipitate Group-III ( , ) absent

a micro test tube and added observed
2-3 drops of concentrated
to oxidise to
ions. Heated the
solution for a few minutes.
After cooling, added a small
amount of solid ammonium
chloride and an excess of
ammonium hydroxide
solution till its smells of
ammonia. Shaked the test
tube and observed the
colour and the nature of the

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precipitate.
8. If group-III is absent, added No precipitate Group IV ( , , , )
a few drops of solution appeared absent.
to the solution of group-III.

9. Took the original solution in A white ppt Group V( , , ) may be

a micro test tube and added appeared present.
a small amount of solid
and an excess of
, followed by solid
ammonium carbonate
,

10. Separated the precipitate Yellow ppt confirmed.

by decantation and washed appeared
with water. Dissolved in hot
dilute acetic acid and
divided the solution into
three parts.
Transferred two drops of
the solution to a well and
added two drops of
potassium chromate
solution.
Dilute sulphuric acid test
To a pinch of salt, taken in a A colourless, are present.
11. test tube, added a few odourless gas is
drops of dil. . evolved with brisk
effervescence,
which turns lime
water milky.

12. Took half a micro spatula of The gas from this confirmed.
the salt in one arm of W- arm bubbles
tube and transferred two through the lime
drops of lime water in the water. The lime
other arm with the help of a water turns milky. If
dropper. Now, transferred gas is passed in
2-3 drops of dilute excess through it,
with the help of the the milkiness
dropper in the first arm and disappears
closed it with your thumb.

Result:-

The given salt contains following radicals:

(i) Basic radical: Barium ion ( )

(ii) Acidic radical: carbonate )

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So, the given salt is Barium carbonate (BaC .

Chemical Reactions involved in the experiment:-

Basic Radical:-

(i) + COOH + O+
(ii) + BaCr +
Yellow ppt

Acidic Radical:-

+ + +

(Brisk effervescence)

+ +

Milky

+ +

Soluble

Carbonate Extract:- (SE)

Mixed one micro spatula of the salt with three micro spatulas of
in a boiling tube. Added about 10 mL distilled water and boiled it for about five minutes.
Cooled and filtered it. The filtrate is sodium carbonate extract(SE).

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