Hydrogen chloride gas being highly soluble in water is dried by:

Concentrated sulphuric acid

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Calcium carbonate

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Quick lime

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Phosphorous pentaoxide

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The correct option is A
Concentrated sulphuric acid

Concentrated sulphuric acid

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Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(i) Hydrogen chloride gas being highly soluble in water is dried by:
(a) Anhydrous calcium chloride
(b) Phosphorous penta oxide
(c) Quick lime
(d) Concentrated sulphuric acid.

Q. Hydrogen chloride gas, being highly soluble in the water, is dried by:

Q. Assertion :Hydrogen chloride gas can be dried over quick lime. Reason: HCl is less reactive and it reacts with calcium oxide to form calcium oxychloride and does not absorb water in the reaction.

Q. Give reasons for the following:
Hydrogen chloride gas cannot be dried over quick lime.

Give reasons for the following:
(i) In the contact process, sulphur trioxide formed is dissolved in 98% sulphuric acid and not in water.
(ii) When solution of sulphur dioxide is exposed to air, it gets converted to sulphuric acid.
(iii) When diluting concentrated sulphuric acid, the acid should be added to water and not water to the acid.
(iv) When concentrated sulphuric acid is exposed to air, its volume increases and it becomes slightly dilute.
(v) Sulphuric acid can form two kinds of salts with sodium chloride.
(vi) When barium chloride is added to dilute sulphuric acid, a white precipitate is formed.
(vii) When carbon is heated with concentrated sulphuric acid, carbon dioxide is formed.
(viii) Ammonia gas cannot be dried by passing through concentrated sulphuric acid.
(ix) When concentrated sulphuric acid is added to sugar/glucose, a black mass is left behind.
(x) Concentrated sulphuric acid should not be added to oxalic acid or formic acid in the open laboratory.
(xi) When concentrated sulphuric acid is added to blue crystalline copper sulphate, it turns powdery white.
(xii) Concentrated sulphuric acid must be stored in airtight bottles.
(xiii) Cotton clothes get burnt with concentrated sulphuric acid.
(xiv) H₂SO₄ cannot be prepared by heating sodium sulphate with conc. HCl or HNO₃.

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Hydrogen chloride gas being highly soluble in water is dried by:

The correct option is A Concentrated sulphuric acid Concentrated sulphuric acid

The correct option is A
Concentrated sulphuric acid

Concentrated sulphuric acid