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Notes Names and Colors of Common Salts

This document lists the names, colors, and characteristics of several common gases and colored ions. Some gases listed are chlorine (greenish yellow), sulfur dioxide (burning sulfur smell), ammonia (green flame when burnt in oxygen), and nitric acid (colorless or yellow in sunlight). Colored ions include cupric (blue), chromium (dark green), nickel (green), and permanganate (pink). The document provides a useful reference for differentiating between compounds in chemistry.

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Notes Names and Colors of Common Salts

This document lists the names, colors, and characteristics of several common gases and colored ions. Some gases listed are chlorine (greenish yellow), sulfur dioxide (burning sulfur smell), ammonia (green flame when burnt in oxygen), and nitric acid (colorless or yellow in sunlight). Colored ions include cupric (blue), chromium (dark green), nickel (green), and permanganate (pink). The document provides a useful reference for differentiating between compounds in chemistry.

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These are just a few names of compounds, what color they List of Gases:

are, their special characteristics (if any), etc.


--> I2 - violet
You'll find this information useful in Acids, Bases, and
Salts; Analytical Chemistry; and in the differentiate --> Br2 - reddish/brownish gas
between two salt/acids/compounds questions.
--> NO2 - reddish brown gas
--> PbCl2 - white chalky ppt; insoluble in cold water, soluble
in hot water. --> Cl2 - greenish yellow gas; NOTE: NOT yellowish green

--> AgCl - white curdy ppt; insoluble in hot and cold water --> SO2 - burning sulphur smell

--> ZnO/PbO - yellow when hot, white when cold --> NH3 - green flame when burnt in oxygen

--> BaSO4 - white ppt; insoluble in all dilute mineral acids --> NH3, HCl, CO2, SO2 - colorless gas with pungent odor

--> PbSO4 - white ppt; insoluble on heating (or when hot) --> HNO3(pure) - colorless

--> Zn(NO3)2 - white --> HNO3(in sunlight) - yellow

--> CuSO4.5H2O - blue List of Colored Ions:

2+
--> CuSO4 (after losing water of crystallization) - white --> Cupric Cu - Blue
amorphous
3+
--> Chromium Cr - Dark green
--> CuCO3 - green
2+
--> Nickel Ni - Green
--> Cu - reddish/pink deposit
2+
--> Ferrous Fe - Light green
--> CuO - black
3+
--> Ferric Fe - Brown
--> MnO2 - black
2+
--> Manganese Mn - Light pink
--> FeCl3 - reddish brown; NOTE: Name a reddish brown
2+
deliquescent salt (always FeCl3) --> Cobalt Co - Pinkish violet

-
--> FeSO4 - dirty green --> Permanganate MnO4 - Pink

2-
--> KMNO4 - purple/violet --> Chromate CrO4 - Yellow

2-
--> K2Cr2O7- orange --> Dichromate Cr2O7 - Orangish yellow

NOTE: All salts of Na, K, NH4 are white

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