Chemistry A-Level
Soluble complex ions
What Soluble complex ions means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Complex ions formed when some transition metal hydroxide precipitates dissolve on addition of excess aqueous sodium hydroxide or excess aqueous ammonia.
Topics that use Soluble complex ions
- Transition elements (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Balanced ionic equations for precipitation
- Balancing complex half-equations
- bidentate ligands
- Bidentate ligands giving octahedral complexes
- Bond angles and shape prediction
- Boundary cases scandium and zinc
- Calculating oxidation state from a formula
- Catalytic behaviour of transition metals and their compounds
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