For this lab I was given an unknown salt and I so far I have done precipitation tests, found the pH, and found out it decomposes with heat when I did a waters of hydration lab and after about 8 min my unknown was gone.
So far I have:
Flame test seemed like the cation was sodium but I am going to re-do this again tomorrow, it didnt seem to be "enough" orange flame, I then used colbalt glass and didnt see anything. But I want to double check.
pH= 6.02 so it must be a neutral salt
UK+ NaOH= no precipitate
UK+ Na3PO4= no precipitate
UK+ Na2CO3= No precipitate
so it must be a first row cation
*and when I added a few drops of HCl to the unknown gas was evolved as it seemed, but there were no bubbles. it was just a small amount of white looking smoke. I am not sure what to make of it.
then:
UK+ AgNO3= milky white precipitate
UK+ Pb(NO3)2= white precipitate
so far I think the cation is Na+, which is why I want to make sure with another flame test because all the first rows have great color, but the range of anions is still wide.
I am not sure what to conclude or what other tests to do, anyone have any suggestions on possible cations/anions and tests I should do? any help is appreciated!