| Metals | Flame Test |
| sodium | A golden-yellow colour to a non-luminous flame |
| Potassium | A lilac flame, which looks crimson when viewed through a blue glass |
| Calcium | An orange-red colour to a non-luminous flam. Also when moistened with Conc. HCL and clean platinum wire is dipped inside it, and this wire is held in a non-luminous Bunsen flame, a brick red flame is produced which when viewed through blue glass appears green |
| Barium | A pale green flame |
| Strontium | A bright red flame |
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