Give chemical test to distinguish between( 1)ammonium sulphate and sodium sulphate (2) ammonium chloride and sodium chloride (3)liquor ammonia and liquid ammonia (4)ammonium sulphate and ammonium nitrate

1. Distinguishing test between ammonium sulphate and sodium sulphate :
If you heat ammonium sulphate with calcium oxide, smell of ammonia will come out.
(NH4)2SO4 + CaO  CaSO4 + 2NH3 +H2O
 
If  a wet glass road by HCl is hold on the evolved gas, white fumes of NH4Cl will form.
NH3 + HCl  NH4Cl
 
But sodium sulphate (Na2SO4) does not respond to above mentioned tests.
If flame test is performed with Na2SO4, a golden yellow flame will be observed.

2. Distinguishing test between ammonium chloride (NH4Cl) and sodium chloride (NaCl)
If you heat ammonium sulphate with calcium oxide, smell of ammonia will come out
If a wet glass road by HCl is hold on the evolved gas, white fumes of NH4Cl will form.
NH3 + HCl   NH4Cl
 
But sodium sulphate (NaCl) does not respond to above mentioned test.
If flame test is performed with NaCl, a golden yellow flame will be observed.

3. Distinguishing test between liquor ammonia and liquid ammonia
Liquor ammonia contains water. So if anhydrous copper sulphate (white colour) is added to it, it will become blue in colour by absorbing water.
CuSO4 (white) + 5H2O → CuSO4. 5H2O (blue)
Liquid ammonia (anhydrous) does not contain water, so this will not change the colour of anhydrous copper sulphate to blue.
 
Physical test: liquor ammonia exists in low / room temperature. But liquid ammonia has the boiling temperature of -33.4oC.
 

4. Distinguishing test between ammonium sulphate and ammonium nitrate If
BaCl2 is added to (NH4)2SO4 , a white precipitate of BaSO4 will appear, but NH4NO3 does not give any precipitate with BaCl2
BaCl2  + (NH4)2SO4 → BaSO4 + 2NH4Cl 
 

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