Chemistry A-Level
Confirmatory tests with ammonia
What Confirmatory tests with ammonia means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Silver chloride dissolves in dilute ammonia, silver bromide dissolves only in concentrated ammonia, and silver iodide is insoluble in ammonia.
Topics that use Confirmatory tests with ammonia
- The periodic table - 3.1.4 Qualitative analysis (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Ammonium ion identification
- Anion identification
- Characteristic reactions
- Gas detection using litmus
- Interference from carbonate ions
- ionic equations
- Linking reagents and observations to a named ion
- Precipitation reactions
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