Chemistry A-Level
Anion tests with silver nitrate and barium salts
What Anion tests with silver nitrate and barium salts means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Acidifying with dilute nitric acid and adding silver nitrate to detect halides, or adding barium chloride or barium nitrate with dilute acid to detect sulfate as a white precipitate.
Topics that use Anion tests with silver nitrate and barium salts
- Transition elements - 5.3.2 Qualitative analysis (OCR A-Level)
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