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Why do we use hydrochloric in the test for sulfate ions but nitric acid for halide ions?

Recently, I have learnt about testing for ions in qualitative analysis (BBC Bitesize). The link above which I used for reference mentions that for the test for sulfate anions, hydrochloric acid $(\ce{...
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