Salt analysis record sheet template

Qualitative inorganic analysis of a simple salt, practical-book style: preliminary and dry tests, anion tests (CO₃²⁻, S²⁻, SO₃²⁻, NO₂⁻, Cl⁻, Br⁻, I⁻, NO₃⁻, SO₄²⁻, PO₄³⁻) and the cation group separation flowchart (groups 0–VI) with observation and inference columns.

What the template shows

• Salt analysis: record sheet
• Systematic qualitative analysis of a simple salt: one anion and one cation
• Grey text gives the positive result for each test (reference only): record what you actually see in “Your observation”.
• Preliminary and dry tests
• Positive result (reference)
• Your observation
• Colour of the salt
• white: Cu²⁺, Fe²⁺/Fe³⁺, Ni²⁺, Co²⁺, Mn²⁺ probably absent; blue/green: Cu²⁺ or Ni²⁺
• Smell (rub a pinch with a drop of water)
• ammoniacal: NH₄⁺; vinegar: CH₃COO⁻
• Solubility in water
• soluble / sparingly soluble
• Heat a little salt in a dry test tube
• colourless odourless gas turning lime water milky: CO₃²⁻; brown gas: NO₃⁻ (heavy metal nitrate); crackling: Pb(NO₃)₂
• Flame test (paste with conc. HCl on a platinum / nichrome wire)
• brick red: Ca²⁺; crimson: Sr²⁺; apple green: Ba²⁺; green-blue: Cu²⁺
• Borax bead test (coloured salts only)
• blue bead: Co²⁺; brown (cold): Ni²⁺; blue-green: Cu²⁺
• Tests for anions (acid radicals)
• Dilute H₂SO₄ test
• Salt + dil. H₂SO₄
• brisk effervescence; colourless odourless gas turns lime water milky
• rotten-egg smell; gas turns lead acetate paper black
• smell of burning sulfur; gas turns acidified K₂Cr₂O₇ paper green

Drawn with 104 shapes – every one editable in MolDraw.

Sources

• NCERT, Laboratory Manual Chemistry, Class XII Textbook
• Vogel's Qualitative Inorganic Analysis, 7th ed., Longman 1996 Textbook