On heating sodium hydrogencarbonate, it decomposes into sodium carbonate, water and oxygen gas.
From the following list of substances. choose one substance in each case which matches the description given below :
Ammonium nitrate, calcium hydrogen carbonate, copper carbonate, lead nitrate, potassium nitrate, sodium carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate. zinc carbonate.
(a) A nitrate which gives off only oxygen when heated.
(b) A nitrate which on heating decomposes into dinitrogen oxide [nitrous oxide] and steam.
(c) A nitrate which gives off oxygen and nitrogen dioxide when heated.