Chemistry GCSE
Interference between overlapping test results
What Interference between overlapping test results means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Sodium yellow is intense and easily masks other colours, so careful cleaning and viewing through a blue glass can help when potassium is suspected.
Topics that use Interference between overlapping test results
- Flame tests (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Characteristic flame colours of metal cations
- Contamination
- Evidence-based identification
- Masked
- Qualitative identification
- Qualitative identification by comparison with standards
- Blue glass
- Dominant emission
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