a) A student was supplied with colourless liquid suspected to be water.
(i) Describe two chemical test that could have been used to show that liquid was water.
(ii) How could it have been shown that liquid was pure water?
Answer:
i)Add a drop of the liquid to anhydrous white copper(II)sulphate and it will turn blue.
Or
Add a drop of the liquid to anhydrous cobalt chloride paper which turns from blue to pink
ii)By finding the boiling of water which is #100^0C# at one atmosphere pressure
Or
By finding the freezing point of water which is #O^0C# at one atmosphere