Flame Test Lab

Topics

• Flame Test

• Emmision Spectrum

• Element Identification

Learning Objectives

• Observe characteristic colors produced by heating different metallic salts.

• Identify an unknown metallic salt by its unique flame color.

• Relate the color of a flame to its atomic emission spectrum.

• Use a diffraction grating to view the emission spectrum of elements.

• Explain how unique emission spectra can be used to identify elements.

Standards Alignment

• HS-PS1-1

• HS-PS4-1

• HS-PS4-3

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