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Give a chemical test to distinguish between the following pair of compounds:

Sodium chloride solution and sodium nitrate solution.

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Sodium chloride on reaction with silver nitrate gives white precipitates of silver chloride whereas sodium nitrate does not gives white precipitate with silver nitrate.

$N a C l + A g N O_{3} ⟶ A g C l (s) + N a N O_{3} (a q)$
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