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Which part of the flame is used to perform the flame test?

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Non-luminous zone
For the flame test metal chloride is taken.
These chlorides are now introduced to the non-luminous (oxidizing) flame where chlorides are split into ions.
This is due to the very high temperature of the oxidizing flame.

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