Question

Ethyl alcohol on distillation with $X$ gives chloroform, $X$ is:

• A. a paste of bleaching powder
• B. chlorine
• C. methyl chloride
• D. $Ca(OH{)}_2$

Answer 1

The correct option is A a paste of bleaching powder

Bleaching powder, Calcium hypochlorite is an inorganic compound with formula Ca(ClO)₂. As a mixture with lime and calcium chloride, it is marketed as chlorine powder or bleaching powder for water treatment and as a bleaching agent.
Chloroform can be prepared in laboratory by reaction of bleaching powder with ethanol or acetone . In this reaction, bleaching powder acts as oxidising chlorinating and hydrolyzing agent..