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Flame Test Lab

The document summarizes a flame test lab where metal cations were tested to analyze their electron configurations and the color of light produced. Materials used included a Bunsen burner, beaker, wooden splints, cobalt glass, and metal cation samples in nitrate compounds. Copper produced a definite bright green flame and was the easiest to identify. The colors of the visible light spectrum from lowest to highest energy are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. The metals tested produced light in increasing order of energy from calcium, lithium, potassium, strontium, sodium, and barium, with copper having the highest energy. The conclusion discusses how the color of light produced relates to the electron configuration and energy levels

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Flame Test Lab

The document summarizes a flame test lab where metal cations were tested to analyze their electron configurations and the color of light produced. Materials used included a Bunsen burner, beaker, wooden splints, cobalt glass, and metal cation samples in nitrate compounds. Copper produced a definite bright green flame and was the easiest to identify. The colors of the visible light spectrum from lowest to highest energy are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. The metals tested produced light in increasing order of energy from calcium, lithium, potassium, strontium, sodium, and barium, with copper having the highest energy. The conclusion discusses how the color of light produced relates to the electron configuration and energy levels

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Eamon Barkhordarian

6/26/09

Flame Test Lab

Purpose: To perform flame tests on metal cations and use the results to analyze electron
configurations and light produced

Materials:
– Bunsen burner
– Small beaker
– Wooden splints
– Cobalt glass
– Cations and unknown samples (in nitrate compounds)
Safety:
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Data:

Metal Cations in Nitrate Salts Flame Color


Regular wooden splint Orange/yellow
Barium Yellow
Calcium Red
Copper Green
Lithium Red/pink
Potassium Pink
Sodium Orange
Strontium Red/orange
Unknown (barium) Green/yellow

Analysis:
1. In my opinion, copper was the most easily identified with the flame test because when we
lit it under the Bunsen burner, it burned a definite and bright green. There was no other
color in the flame, only green.
2. The colors of the visible light spectrum in order from lowest to highest energy: red,
orange, yellow, green, blue, violet.
Eamon Barkhordarian
6/26/09

3. The metals we tested in increasing order of energy of the light emitted within each
family: calcium, lithium, potassium, strontium, sodium, regular wooden splint, barium,
copper.
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6/26/09

4.
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6/26/09

Conclusion:
1. Lithium color was red/pink, the potassium and calcium was red, and barium was yellow.
Potassium and calcium have the lowest energy on the visible light spectrum. This means
the electrons are closer to the nucleus which possess lower energy. Lithium was a
brighter shade of red (pink) meaning it was higher on the visible light spectrum. This
means the electrons are farther from the nucleus with higher energy. The highest on the
visible light spectrum was barium, with a yellow color. These electrons were farthest
from the nuclear with the highest amount of energy.
2.
a. Crimson red is a darker shade of red, so I’d choose to include the element
calcium.
b. For yellow, I’d pick the element Barium.

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