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Question
The figure given below illustrates the apparatus used in the laboratory preparation of nitric acid.
- Name A (a liquid), B (a solid), and C (a liquid). (Do not give the formulae).
- Write an equation to show how nitric acid undergoes decomposition.
- Write the equation for the reaction in which copper is oxidised by concentrated nitric acid.
Solution
- A: Conc. sulphuric acid
B: Sodium nitrate or Potassium nitrate
C: Nitric acid - \[\ce{4HNO3 ->[Heat][Sunlight] 4NO2 + 2H2O + O2}\]
- \[\ce{Cu + 4HNO3 -> Cu(NO3)2 + 2NO2 + 2H2O}\]
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