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Ziinc Sulphate

The document describes a series of experiments and observations to identify an unknown salt. Key observations include the salt being colorless, turning yellow when heated, producing a white precipitate with barium chloride that is insoluble in HCl, and forming a white precipitate with NaOH that dissolves in excess NaOH. Through exclusion of other possibilities, the experiments confirm the unknown salt is zinc sulphate, containing sulphate as the acid radical and zinc as the basic radical.

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Ziinc Sulphate

The document describes a series of experiments and observations to identify an unknown salt. Key observations include the salt being colorless, turning yellow when heated, producing a white precipitate with barium chloride that is insoluble in HCl, and forming a white precipitate with NaOH that dissolves in excess NaOH. Through exclusion of other possibilities, the experiments confirm the unknown salt is zinc sulphate, containing sulphate as the acid radical and zinc as the basic radical.

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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

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