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What metals do colors indicate?
Color Metal
Red Carmine: Lithium compounds. Masked by barium or sodium.
Scarlet or Crimson: Strontium compounds. Masked by barium.
Yellow-Red: Calcium compounds. Masked by barium.
Yellow Sodium compounds, even in trace amounts. A yellow flame is not indicative of sodium unless it persists and is not intensified by addition of 1% NaCl to the dry compound.
White White-Green: Zinc
Green Emerald: Copper compounds, other than halides. Thallium.
Blue-Green: Phosphates, when moistened with H2SO4 or B2O3.
Faint Green: Antimony and NH4 compounds.
Yellow-Green: Barium, molybdenum.
Blue Azure: Lead, selenium, bismuth, CuCl2 and other copper compounds moistened with hydrochloric acid.
Light Blue: Arsenic and come of its compounds.
Greenish Blue: CuBr2, antimony
Violet Potassium compounds other than borates, phosphates, and silicates. Masked by sodium or lithium.
Purple-Red: Potassium, rubudium, and/or cesium in the presence of sodium when viewed through a blue glass.
 
 
 
Symbol Name Color
As Arsenic Blue
B Boron Bright Green
Ba Barium Light green
Ca Calcium Red-orange
Cs Cesium Pale violet
Cu(I) Copper(I) Blue
Cu(II) Copper(II) (non-halide) Green
Cu(II) Copper(II) (halide) Blue-green
Fe Iron Gold
In Indium Blue
K Potassium Lilac
Li Lithium Crimson
Mn(II) Manganese(II) Yellowish green
Mo Molybdenum Yellowish green
Na Sodium Intense Yellow
P Phosphorus Pale bluish green
Pb Lead Pale green
Rb Rubidium Pale violet
Sb Antimony Pale green
Se Selenium Azure blue
Sr Strontium Crimson
Te Tellurium Pale green
Tl Thallium Pure green
Zn Zinc Bluish green

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