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Question
How would you obtain ‘hydrogen from sodium hydroxide’ solution other than by electrolysis?
Solution
By adding aluminium powder in cone, sodium hydroxide.
\[\ce{2Al + 6NaOH ->\underset{\text{sodium aluminium}}{2Na3AlO3} + 3H2}\]
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