borax bead test

English

Noun

borax bead test (plural borax bead tests)

(inorganic chemistry) in qualitative inorganic analysis, a test for the presence of certain metallic elements by observing the colours given to a bead of borax in a loop of platinum wire held in the oxidizing and reducing parts of a Bunsen burner flame

Translations

a test for the presence of certain metallic elements

German: Boraxperle f
Irish: promhadh cnapbhóráis m

See also

flame test
charcoal block test

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