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Can you find the identities of the unknown substances?

We were given this and I'm having trouble can you at least put me in the right direction?

Goal: determine the identities of the unknown substances.

4 Known:

NaOH -Sodium hydroxide

Na2 SO4 -Sodium Sulfate

NaI - Sodium Iodide

AgNO3- Siver nitrate

5 Unknown:

Pb (NO3)2- Lead (II) nitrate

CaCl2- Calcium choride

NH4Cl- Ammonium chloride

MgCl2- magnesium chloride

KNO3- Potassium nitrate

Thanks for the help!

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  • Bob
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    I don't get the question it seems like you have already named all the unknowns.

  • angele
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    First, you may desire to understand if it rather is an organic and organic and organic and organic or inorganic substance so which you will burn it. organic and organic and organic and organic aspects will burn and bypass away carbon at the back of. now if it rather is organic and organic and organic and organic you may desire to upload small volume of it to molten sodium and then therapy the top carry forth water. a chain of uncomplicated exams which you will detect in any chemistry e book will grant you with the experimental formula. then you extremely extremely could desire to degree the molecular weight and using it calculate the molecular formula. ( Mass spectroscopy can do a similar in spite of if it rather is costly) having the molecular formula you in straightforward words prefer "IR" and "H1 NMR" and "C13 NMR" spectra to tell the form in 89% of circumstances.(for added complicated aspects like polymers or proteins you may desire to word 2d or possibly 3-d NMR) inorganic aspects are plenty plenty much less complicated. purely use the methods in any analytical chemistry e book (like : recommendations of instrumental prognosis by way of Skoog,Holler,Nieman (all of them!)

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