Identification and Contirmatory Tests for Group Ill cations
1. Residue (trom part 1, step 6)
Separate the
mixture
immediately
Add 10 draps of
aM HCl and stir
the mixture
Add 3 drops of 12M
Hel
Wash the residue with 4
drops of 1M HCl
Heat the
mixture Ina
water bath
Add sufficient 4M aqueous
ammonia to make the mixture
basic until it becomes litmus
Add 1 drop of 14M.
Mh Binoy tothe recdue
from step +
Dilute the
the solution
mixtureto: JP MPU cine
mL
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Add distilled water
to the residue to
make amb
Add 1 mL of 4M HNO3
and evaporate to a moist
residue
Transfer the mixture ina
test tube
Heat it in a hot
Add io drops of 396 H202 water bath for =f Centrifuge
to the mixture minutes
Combine the ‘Wash the residue with 10
drops of water to which
centrifuge and pe added 1 drop of 4
washings, for step & M NaOH
To treat the residue
with 1 mL of 4M.
HING3 and 2 drops
oft M NaNo2
Stir the mixture
Heat the solutian to
boiling
Remove any residue
that remains
Heat ina hot water bath
‘Add a small amount of
TEST FOR solid Na3BIQ3 and few
Pasi drops of 4M HNO3 to the
solution
Dilute the
TESTFOR solution with add 2 to 3 crystals
ro distilled up to 4 of NH4sCN
mL‘Add 4M CH3COOH
to the centrifuge
from step 3 until it
changes to acid,
red to litmus,
add 2 oF 3 drops in
excess
add 4M aqueaus NH3
Until the solution
changes from
distinctly alkaline to
Separate the mixture
and reserve the solution
Tar step 6
Centrifuge
Dissolve the residue in 44 " Preseiae Trae
CH3COGH and add 2 aluminurn hydroxide might
drops of aluminon (dye) $f, _ | Theiotmation of red lake bbe present
precipitate confirms the
reagent and enaugh iM
presence of aluminum
(NH4}2C03 to make the
solution basic
The formation of
pracipitata eonlirms zine
The formation
pracipitate confirms the
presence ol zine