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Flame Tests Spectrums

See the Video

Using the Ad Hoc Spectroscope, we obtain the spectrums for flame tests of various metal ions.

With the Spectroscope with Video Camera, we can take a video while concentrating on the flame test. Then we can review the Video and observer the spectrum for the specific flame test for the metal ion. From the video we can take a snapshot of the spectrum.

For a video on using a spectroscope for flame tests see this link .

For flame tests see the results on this website and also this link.

Note for the flame tests a Platinum wire was used. We used a straight wire so that we can uniquely show the spectrum against the full color spectrum of the heated Platinum wire. See this link for a discussion on using Platinum Wire for flame tests.

The captured video for the spectrum of the various flame tests are shown in this YouTube Video from ScientificWorks.org.

In the table below we show the screen shots from the video of the Spectrum for each test.

Item	Salt Used	Spectrum
1	Strontium Chloride
2	Potassium Chloride
3	Lithium Chloride
4	Calcium Chloride
5	Cupric Chloride

It is interesting to compare the results above with the results here .