Colored Metal Jewels - The Bead Test
Most people have seen colored fire, which can be used as a flame test to help identify the ions in a sample. The bead test
is a related qualitative technique that involves heating sample-infused
borax, microcosmic salt, or sodium carbonate beads in a flame to
produce colored 'jewels' or beads representative of metal ions. You can
make blue borax jewels, plus I've got instructions for producing other
colors of beads... learn how
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