A sample of water drawn from a river passing through an agricultural district was divided into two portions

      

A sample of water drawn from a river passing through an agricultural district was divided into two portions. The first portion gave a white precipitate when acidified barium chloride was added. The second portion when warmed with aqueous sodium hydroxide gave a colourless gas which turned a moist red litmus paper blue.
i) Identify the ions present in the river water
ii) Suggest the possible source (s) of ions identified in (a) above

  

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John
a) $SO^{2-}_4$ and $NH ^ + _4$

b) From ammonia and sulphate based fertilizer used in the farms
johnmulu answered the question on February 10, 2017 at 13:48


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