A spoon. A beaker partially filled with liquid. A stirring rod. A graduated cylinder. Distilled water in a spray bottle. Which of the following tools could have become cross-contaminated during the experiment if you had not cleaned them carefully between successive tests? Spoon Beaker Stirring Rod Graduated Cylinder Distilled water in spray bottle.

Spoon

Beaker Stirring Rod

Graduated Cylinder

nacl or sodium chloride is an ionic compound. this is because an ionic compound pertains to a compound that consists of positively and negatively charged ions. in this case, na (sodium) has a tendency to lose one electron when it reacts with with other atoms, so the resulting sodium ion contains 11 protons and 10 electrons, thus making it positively charged (na+), when chlorine reacts, it usually gains one electron to form an ion called chloride, thus making it negatively charged ( since the ions are oppositely charged, they attract.