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Tartrate
I made some potassium tartrate. It is easy to make because it very soluble. The flask remained few drops solution so I added some nickel chloride to
make nickel tartrate. Nickel tartrate is green. Later I will make more nickel tartrate and other tartrates. This is few drops mixture photo. But why
my potassium tartrate solution yellow? What impurity make it so yellow?
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Lots of things are yellow. There’s no way to answer that without more information. What did you make your potassium tartrate from, and where did the
chemicals come from?
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I used KOH and tartaric acid. I some years ago buyed them in a chemical supplies shop. potassium tartrate very soluble, many days also didn't
crystalise, but sodium tartrate not so soluble, it very easy crystalise out. I tryed heat potassium tartrate solution but it still don't crystalise,
added isopropyl alcohol also no use. I also made copper tartarate, it is blue, but it has 2 types, 1 type is lighter blue, other 1 type is bluer, I
don't know need how to separate them. in the piture that 2 layers are I say that 2 types.
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If you want to purify your tartrate, add another equivalent of tartaric acid to you potassium tartrate. Potassium hydrogen tartrate is fairly
insoluble, and crystallizes nicely.
Please remember: "Filtrate" is not a verb.
Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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nickel tartrate, copper tartrate
Left is nickel tartrate, middle and right is copper tartrate. I don't know why copper tartrate surface grow mould.
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Method:
mix metal salt solution (NiCl2, CuSO4) and potassium tartrate solution, metal tartrate precipitate out.
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