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Starting with barium carbonate solid, dilute sulphuric acid and dilute nitric acid,describe how you would prepare dry barium sulphate solid

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-To the nitric acid in a beaker, add barium carbonate solid as you stir until effervescence stops.
- Filter to obtain the filtrate
- Add dilute nitric acid to the filtrate and filter to obtain the residue
- Dry the residue under the sun or between filter papers.

maurice.mutuku answered the question on October 16, 2019 at 08:35

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