Michael Giuliano guides through the metal salts used in this experiment, called a metal flame test. “This is table salt, a solution of sodium chloride,” and some you probably don’t.

According to the research conducted by Future Market Insights, the global industrial sodium chloride market is expected to grow with a phenomenal CAGR of 4.2% over the forecast period from 2022 to ...

Sodium chloride, otherwise known as table salt, burns orange like normal flames. “Sodium is used in fireworks. Usually, when it burns more intensely, it’ll go from that orange to more of a ...

MR. HARDMAN, in NATURE, vol. xiv. p. 506, gives an account of a number of experiments which he considers to bear out the old theory that the blue flame produced by throwing common salt on a coal ...

Different chemical elements correspond with different colors: strontium carbonate for red, calcium chloride for orange, sodium nitrate for yellow, barium chloride for green, and copper chloride ...

SOME time ago a correspondent of NATURE (vol. xiii. p. 287) inquired for an explanation of the fact that while common salt (chloride of sodium) colours the flame of an ordinary spirit-lamp yellow ...