Flame Test Lab

I wasn't here when my class completed the flame test lab, so instead, I looked it up online.

"A flame test is an analytic procedure used in chemistry to detect the presence of certain elements, primarily metal ions, based on each element's characteristic emission spectrum. The color of flames in general also depends on temperature."

A flame test involves the elements on the periotic table, and what makes up the elements.  From what I've seen online, all the elements basically have a color and when one does the experiment with the elements, it causes all the flames to turn different colors.

A flame test is used to determine the identity or possible identity of a metal or metalloid ion found in an iconic compound.  It's used to visually determine the identity of an unknown metal of an iconic salt based on the characteristic color (like what I said before, all the elements have their own colors), then the salt turns the flame a different color on the Bunsen burner.