Identify the salts P, Q, R from the following observations

Acids, Bases, Salts (10)

Identify the salts P, Q, R from the following observations:

(i) Salt P has light bluish green colour. On heating, it produces a black coloured residue. Salt P produces brisk effervescence with dil. HCl and the gas evolved turns lime water milky, but no action with acidified potassium dichromate solution.

(ii) Salt Q is white in colour. On strong heating, it produces buff yellow residue and liberates reddish brown gas. Solution of salt Q produces chalky white insoluble precipitate with excess of ammonium hydroxide.

(iii) Salt R is black in colour. On reacting with concentrated HCl, it liberates a pungent greenish yellow gas which turns moist starch iodide paper blue black.

Answer

(i) CuCO₃ or copper carbonate or copper(II) carbonate

(ii) Pb(NO₃)₂ or lead nitrate or lead(II) nitrate

(iii) MnO₂ or manganese dioxide or manganese (IV) oxide

• Exam Year: 2020