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Qualitative Analysis Lab

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To ensure maximum efficiency and meet time constraints, the steps in the procedure were performed quickly and but carefully. Most binary mixings produced clear colorless solutions, milky white solutions, or white precipitates. The mixings of the known solutions were recorded in Matrix 1; half of the fields were blocked out to prevent repetitions and same mixtures. The table produced many notable observations; for instance, water produced clear colorless solutions in all mixings and mixings with lead (II) nitrate usually formed precipitates. To identify the unknown solutions, qualitative analysis was performed on the unknown solutions and compared with observations of known solutions in Matrix 1. For example, Unknown Solutions 3 and 9 were easily identified as potassium iodide because of its …show more content…

Unknown Solution 8 was identified as sodium oxalate from its formation of white silver oxalate precipitate with silver nitrate, clear brown solution formation with sodium sulfide, milky white solution formation with barium chloride (the white particles in the solution were barium oxalate), and white lead (II) oxalate precipitation reaction with lead (II) nitrate. Though Solutions 4 and 10 reacted with lead (II) nitrate to form a brown precipitate just as sodium sulfide would, the two unknown solutions did not form a clear brown solution with sodium oxalate and had different but similar properties in other binary mixings; this might be due to contamination, so Solutions 4 and 10 are likely sodium sulfide. Though it reacted differently with sodium sulfide, Unknown Solution 11 was identified as sodium oxalate because of its many white precipitate-forming reactions. Sodium carbonate formed a milky yellow-white precipitate (silver carbonate) with silver nitrate, a white precipitate (barium carbonate) with barium chloride, and reacted with lead (II) nitrate to form lead (II)

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