A student was supplied with a colourless liquid suspected to be water (i) Describe one chemical test that could have been used to show that the liquid was water

      

A student was supplied with a colourless liquid suspected to be water
i) Describe one chemical test that could have been used to show that the liquid was water
ii) How could it have been shown that the liquid was pure water

  

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John
i) Add a drop of the liquid to anhydrous(white) copper (II) sulphate and it will turn blue. Or Use anhydrous colbalt chloride paper; which turns from blue to pink


ii) By finding the boiling point of water which is 100oC at 1 atmosphere pressure

johnmulu answered the question on February 10, 2017 at 14:17


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