Question

Lithium sulphate is used in some medicines and its presence in a medicine can be shown by two a combination of two tests a)explain how a flame test could help in this context

b) Describe how you would test a solution of the medicine for the presence of sulphate ions.
C) write a balanced chemical equation, including state symbols, for the reaction occurring in B)

Answer 1

A flame test could help by seeing what things it could catch on fire from or the things that could happen with acids etc. I would test the medicine by asking someone who has had it in their life, asking doctors or I would maybe use it myself maybe. (I don’t know about c, sooo sorry)