What is the difference between blending and masking and how it would affect the flame test?
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I dont know about blending. Masking is where there is something in solution (like an anion, such as phosphate) that surrounds and "hides" (stabilizes, sequesters, pick your term) the metal ion so that it gives a lower spectra strength than it should based on its concentration. This is a real big problem in atomic absorption spectroscopy -- that why people have gone to inductively coupled plasmas and other techniques.
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