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I am doing a lab assigment and I cant figure this one out: Quite often students

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Question

I am doing a lab assigment and I cant figure this one out:


Quite often students state they have bismuth in their unknown when they actually have iron(III) even though they had a dark-colored precipitate in their test tube after adding nitric acid and potassium iodide to the supernatant in tt2. This is called a false positive.


These are my options:


A) I have to make sure all of the barium ions have been separated out of the solution prior to this step.

B) I have to make sure all of the aluminum ions have been separated out of the solution prior to this step.

C) I have to make sure all of the lead(II) ions have been separated out of the solution prior to this step.

D) I have to make sure all of the iron(III) ions have been separated out of the solution prior to this step

A) I have to make sure all of the barium ions have been separated out of the solution prior to this step.

B) I have to make sure all of the aluminum ions have been separated out of the solution prior to this step.

C) I have to make sure all of the lead(II) ions have been separated out of the solution prior to this step.

D) I have to make sure all of the iron(III) ions have been separated out of the solution prior to this step

Explanation / Answer

I have to make sure all of the iron(III) ions have been separated out of the solution prior to this step