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How would you distinguish between the following set of compounds?
zinc chloride and calcium chloride

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Use flame test to identify them

zinc burns with blue-green to pale green color so zinc chloride burns with blue-green color

and calcium gives orange-red flame and calcium chloride will burn with orange-red flame.

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