What color are nitrates?

red
lithium nitrate produces a red color, sodium nitrate produces a yellow/orange color, potassium nitrate and rubidium nitrate produce violet colors, caesium nitrate produces an indigo color.

What color is nitrate in water?

Nitrate (NO3) Nitrate is a compound that is formed when nitrogen combines with oxygen. Usually, high amounts of nitrate get into drinking water. Nitrate is colorless, odorless and tasteless.

What is the colour of lead nitrate?

white
Lead nitrate is a white crystalline solid. The material is soluble in water.

What is the colour of the copper nitrate?

blue
Obtained as a trihydrate and as a hexahydrate. Both are blue crystalline solids.

What nitrate smells like?

It depends on level of decomposition. Mild deterioration smells like moth balls or the musty smell of an attic. As it gets worse, it smells like fluorescent lights going bad, chlorine, to obnoxious fumes.

Are nitrates oxidizers?

Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate are widely used as strong oxidizing agents, most notably in explosives where the rapid decomposition of nitrate into its constituent elements frees up large volumes of reactive oxygen.

Is NO2 a nitrate?

Nitrate (NO3) and Nitrite (NO2) are nitrogen-containing compounds that can be found in water and soils. The presence of nitrate and nitrite generally indicates contamination from a pasture, manure pile, decomposed vegetation or agricultural fertilizers, or sewage, though it may come from erosion of natural deposits.

What colour is silver nitrate?

colorless
Silver nitrate appears as a colorless or white crystalline solid becoming black on exposure to light or organic material.

What is the colour of no2?

Nitrogen dioxide is a deep red-orange gas that is poisonous but not flammable. It, along with aerosols, is responsible for the reddish-brown color of smog.

What Colour is silver nitrate?

Is silver a color?

Silver or metallic gray is a color tone resembling gray that is a representation of the color of polished silver….Pale silver.

Silver (Crayola)
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(201, 192, 187)
Source	Crayola
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Yellowish gray