This will be the second last blogpost on under the series of “Secrets of Acids, Bases & Salts and Qualitative Analysis revealed”, and it will be the section where either a student loves its or hates it totally.
Qualitative Analysis (QA) is essentially a chapter that is associated with the Practicals or SPAs that you do your in Chemistry Laboratories. It involves your skills in the Identification of Ions (Cations & Anions) and Gases.
Here is a screen shot on the learning outcomes that students need to know to do well in this topic:
Let’s get started with a typical exam-based questions that you will normally see – A Flow-Chart asking you to identify the unknowns.
(i) Identify P, Q, R , S and T. (5 marks)
(ii) In colourless solution R, identify the:
Cation Present _______________
Anion Prsent ________________
(iii) Identify the compound A and element B (2 marks)
(Click image to see properly. You can then save it to your computer, analyze and solve the question step-by-step)
PS: Leave me your suggested answers (as many parts as possible that you can solve) in the Comments Section below, and i will get back to you all with a Last Blogpost under this series.
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