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A Compound which is yellow on heating and white on cooling

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Zinc oxide is white in color but on heating it turns into yellow because on heating it loses oxygen reversibly at high temperature.

The reaction is as under:-

ZnO → Zn²⁺ + 1/2 O₂ + 2e^-

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