Flame Test Colour Chart
Flame test colorful elements burning metals reveal themselves from unexpected awesome colors in a simple flame test.
Flame test colour chart. Most people probably remember doing this experiment in school chemistry lessons if not with the full range of ions shown here but for the uninitiated a brief explanation of the origin of the colours follows. Barium manganese ii and molybdenum. This graphic looks at the colour of various metal and metalloid ions that occur during flame tests.
Also some metal ions display colors that are similar to each other making it hard to tell them apart. The flame test is an analytical chemistry method used to help identify metal ions. Most people probably remember doing this experiment in school chemistry lessons if not with the full range of ions shown here but for the uninitiated a brief explanation of the origin of the colours follows.
What about green or purple flames. Green stay hungry for more getty images. Blue orange and yellow flames are pretty common.
While it s a useful qualitative analysis test and a lot of fun to perform it can t be used to identify all metals because not all metal ions yield flame colors. The flame test color for strontium is the red of emergency flares and red fireworks. Not all metal ions give flame colors.
It s a deep crimson to brick red.