Chemistry GCSE
Blue glass
What Blue glass means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Blue glass
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Placed between the eye and the flame to absorb yellow light so that a lilac colour becomes visible.
Topics that use Blue glass
- Flame tests (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Characteristic flame colours of metal cations
- Contamination
- Evidence-based identification
- Interference between overlapping test results
- Masked
- Qualitative identification
- Qualitative identification by comparison with standards
- Dominant emission
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