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Silver nitrate solution is kept in brown bottles in the laboratory because:

A
it reacts with ordinary bottles
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ordinary bottles catalyst the decomposition
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the materials of brown bottles do not react with it
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brown bottles cut the passage of light through it
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Solution

The correct option is D brown bottles cut the passage of light through it
Silver nitrate decomposes in presence of sunlight. To prevent this decomposition, silver nitrate is placed in brown colour bottles as sunlight cannot pass through brown colour bottles.

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