Question type: Shopping & Pricing. I'm looking at buying a 2011 BMW 335 Manufacturer buyback that was originally from California. I've gotten over the stigma of buying a buyback,' since the car has been repaired by BMW, is still under warranty and the price is a lot closer to what I'm willing to spend. The reason it was bought back was for an extended crank issue, which has been completely resolved.
Do you think we can use the flame test to determine the identity of unknown in a mixture? Why or why not? I think that the flame test could be used to determine the identity of unknowns in a mixture, however it would not be very effective. This is because if there are to many different compounds, or elements, all of the colors of light mixed together would bring the flame closer to just emitting white light.
flame tests this page describes how to do a flame test for a range of metal ions and briefly describes how the flame colour arises flame tests are used to identify the presence of a relatively small number of metal ions in a compoundnot all metal ions give flame coloursfor group 1 compounds flame tests are usually by far the easiest way of identifying which metal you have got for other metals there are usually other easy methods which are more reliable but the flame test can give a useful hint as to where to lookot all metal ions give flame colours for group 1 compounds flame tests are usually by far the easiest way of identifying which metal you have got for other metals there are usually other easy methods which are more reliable but the flame test can give a useful hint as to where to look