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How do you test for sodium ions and potassium ions when both are present?
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∙ 12y ago
Get a wire. Bend it into a ring and put a few crystals of your solid on it. Do a flame test using a Bunsen burner. Potassium will give a violet flame and Sodium ions will give a Yellow flame.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoThe potassium ion burns with a lilac coloured flame.
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Why is sodium less reactive than potassium?
Sodium and potassium are both highly reactive because they have only one outer shell electron which they lose very easily to form Na+ and K+ ions respectively. The sodium and potassium in the body are already in the form of these ions.
What are the metal ions present in sodium chloride?
Na+ - sodium
Why is it difficult to identify potassium ions and sodium ions in low sodium salt using a flame test?
When sodium is subjected to a flame test, it burns a bright yellow. This yellow flame can be brighter than the lilac flame color of the potassium, which makes it more difficult to distinguish between the sodium and potassium.
Does Potassium ions move across the same gradient as sodium ions?
Yes, because they are part of an active-transport system that requires the use of ATP energy.
What ions are present in an aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide?
When sodium hydroxide (NaOH) is dissolved in water, the ions formed are Na^+ and OH^-. Sodium hydroxide is a strong electrolyte and will ionized completely.
Which ions are exchanged in a sodium potassium pump?
3 sodium ions for 2 potassium ions.
What is a brief description of the action of the sodium-potassium pump?
The sodium-potassium pump is a transmembrane protein in a cell membrane. It keeps large concentrations of sodium ions outside the cell, and potassium ions inside the cell. It does this by pumping the sodium ions out, and the potassium ions in.
What's the direction sodium ions are pumped?
Sodium ions and potassium ions are pumped in opposite directions. Sodium ions are pumped out of the cell and potassium ions are pumped into the cell.
Why is it imposible for sodium to unite chemically with potasium?
both sodium and potassium ions have a +1 valence state.
What ions are pumped in and out of cell through the sodium potassium pump?
3 sodium ions go out and 2 potassium ions go in
Process by which ATP is used to move sodium ions out of the cell and potassium ions back into the cell?
Sodium-Potassium pump uses ATP (energy) to pump sodium out of cells and potassium back in.
The sodium-potassium pump releases?
Hmm. Maybe Sodium and Potassium? Or another answer is it transfers Na+ (sodium) out of the cell and K+ potassium into the cell.
What are two ions that are needed for nerve transmission?
Not minerals, it is ions. Calcium ions and sodium ions.
Sodium and potassium ions both have a positive charge but potassium is larger and there is a protein channel that allows potassium ions through but blocks sodium ions and how is this possible?
These membranes have several types of selective ion channels. Some are nongates and always open, but for the potassium channel is gated, and only opens for the chemical potassium after specific conformational changes.
Why does other Group 1A ions such as sodium and potassium which are normally present in substantial concentrations in the body do not have the same effect as lithium ions?
ion size
What does the Na1 Ka1ATPase transport sodium and potassium into a cell sodium and potassium out of a cell sodium into cell potassium out of cell sodium out of cell potassium in ATP?
NaKATPase transports 3 K ions into the cell and takes only two Na ions out of it.
In a sodium-potassium pump what molecules are moved and where are they moved to?
In a sodium-potassium pump a carrier protein uses ATP in Active transport. The sodium ions are transported out of the cells and the potassium ions are transported into the cell.
