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A hydrated colorless solid (A) is water soluble and finds use in medicine as a purgative. When a solution of (A) is treated with ammonium phosphate, a white precipitate is formed. (A) gives a pink mass is cobalt nitrate test. What is (A) ?

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FeSO4H2O
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Na2SO410H2
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MgSO47H2O
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CaSO42H2O
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Solution

The correct option is B MgSO47H2O
Salts of zinc, tin, aluminum and magnesium which give white residue in the charcoal cavity test, on hating with cobalt nitrate form coloured double oxides.
2Co(NO3)22CoO+4NO2+O2
CoO+MgOCoO.MgO(Pink)
Hence the salt is MgSO4.7H2O

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