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Asked by lovemaan5500 | 10 Feb, 2018, 06:10: PM
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Qualitative analysis is a method of determination of the composition of given or unknown compound.
 
We have used ammonium hydroxide in the qualitative analysis because it gives a different coloured precipitate with different metallic salts, from obtained colour we can be identified which cation is present in given sample. 
 
example:
1) Iron
(A) Iron (II) salt [Fe2+ ion]FeSO4 + 2NH4OH → Fe(OH)2 + (NH4)2SO4
                                                                                  (dirty green ppt.) (colourless)
(B) Iron (III) salt [Fe3+ ion]FeCl3 + 3NH4OH → Fe(OH)3 + 3NH4Cl
                                                                   (reddish       (colourless)
                                                                   brown ppt.)
2) Copper (II) salt
[Cu2+ion]CuSO4 + 2NH4OH → Cu(OH)2 + (NH4)2SO4
                                     (pale blue ppt.) (colourless in solution)
Answered by Ramandeep | 10 Feb, 2018, 07:18: PM

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