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Ionic Salts and Their Characteristic

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Both sodium and ammonium hydroxide are used in analytical chemistry for identifying __[cations/anions] of salts.

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Alkalis are important laboratory reagents. Most commonly used alkalis are sodium hydroxide(a strong alkali) and ammonium hydroxide(a weak alkali). Both these alkalis give characteristic tests with various metal cation and thus cation can be identified.

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