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Question
Give reason for the following:
Commercial nitric acid is yellow in colour, but when it is diluted with water, it turns colourless.
Solution
Commercial nitric acid is yellow in colour because of presence of nitrogen dioxide but when it is diluted with water, it turns colourless because nitrogen dioxide get dissolved in water.
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