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Adding colorless sodium chloride to colorless silver nitrate produces a white precipitate.

Solution A: 0.2 M sodium chloride (colorless)
Solution B: 0.1 M silver nitrate (colorless)
Precipitate: (white)
AgNO3(aq) + NaCl(aq) --> AgCl(s) + NaNO3(aq)

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The mixing of solutions of silver nitrate and sodium chloride results in the formation of a mixture composed of a solution of sodium nitrate and a silver chloride precipitate.

Slide 1: This represents a silver nitrate solution. The violet balls are silver ions. Nitrate ions are represented by a blue ball (nitrogen) surrounded by three red balls (oxygen).

Slide 2: This represents a sodium chloride solution. The blue-grey balls are sodium ions and the green balls are chloride ions

Slide 3: This represents a mixture of silver ions, chloride ions, sodium ions and nitrate ions as they might appear before reaction.

Slide 4: This is a representation of the mixture present after the reaction is complete. It shows silver chloride solid, sodium ions and nitrate ions.

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Adding colorless sodium chloride to blue copper(II) nitrate results in no reaction, no precipitate and a blue solution.

Solution A: 0.2 M sodium chloride (colorless)
Solution B: 0.2 M copper(II) nitrate (blue)
Precipitate: none. Resulting solution: (blue)
Cu(NO3)2(aq) + NaCl(aq) --> No Reaction

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Adding colorless sodium chloride to green nickel(II) nitrate results in no reaction, no precipitate and a green solution.

Solution A: 0.2 M sodium chloride (colorless)
Solution B: 0.2 M nickel(II) nitrate (green)
Precipitate: none. Resulting solution: (green)
Ni(NO3)2(aq) + NaCl(aq) --> No Reaction

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Adding colorless sodium chloride to dark yellow iron(III) nitrate results in no reaction, no precipitate and a dark yellow solution.

Solution A: 0.2 M sodium chloride (colorless)
Solution B: 0.2 M iron(III) nitrate (dark yellow)
Precipitate: none. Resulting solution: (dark yellow)
Fe(NO3)3(aq) + NaCl(aq) --> No Reaction

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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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