Chemistry GCSE
Precipitate colours
What Precipitate colours means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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The characteristic colours are white for silver chloride, cream for silver bromide and yellow for silver iodide, and these colours allow the halide ion present to be identified.
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- Halides (AQA GCSE)
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