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Explain why nitric acid is kept in reagent bottle for a long time?

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Nitric acid decomposes when exposed to light as:
4HNO₃ → 4NO₂ + 2H₂O + O₂

The NO₂ thus formed dissolves in nitric acid to give a yellow brown appearance.
Hence nitric acid is stored in a brown bottle.

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