Chemist's palette puzzle

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Match these chemicals with the appropriate colours listed below.

  1. anthracite
  2. barium salt in a flame test
  3. bromothymol blue in a weak acid
  4. calcium salt in a flame test
  5. copper salt in a flame test
  6. copper (II) nitrate solution
  7. graphite
  8. iron (III) oxyhydroxide
  9. phenolphthalein in a base
  10. potassium permanganate solution
  11. silver chloride precipitate
  12. strontium carbonate in fireworks
     

__________     pink

__________     red

__________    orange

__________    yellow

__________    yellow-green

__________    green

__________    blue

__________    purple

__________    brown

__________    white

__________    lead grey

__________   black