sodium chloride and potassium nitrate

Adding colorless sodium chloride to colorless potassium nitrate results in no reaction, no precipitate and a colorless solution.

Solution A: 0.2 M sodium chloride (colorless)
Solution B: 0.2 M potassium nitrate (colorless)
Precipitate: none. Resulting solution: (colorless)
KNO₃(aq) + NaCl(aq) --> No Reaction

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