Separation of phosphates, nitrates and nitrites

[kateman]

Hello

If you had an aqueous solution of phosphates, nitrates and nitrites, how could you separate them?

Also, if not answered above, how could you separate a solution of just nitrates and nitrites?

thank-you for you're time

 

[Borek]

That will depend on many factors. Do you want to separate them for analysis? Or in some industrial process? What are cations present?

 

[lightarrow]

Hello

If you had an aqueous solution of phosphates, nitrates and nitrites, how could you separate them?

Also, if not answered above, how could you separate a solution of just nitrates and nitrites?

thank-you for you're time

I would first precipitate the phosphates with CaCl2 or BaCl2, for example; then I would precipitate the nitrites with, e.g. AgF.