What are the chemicals used in the laboratory preparation of chlorine?

Potassium permanganate

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Hydrochloric acid

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Potassium chloride

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Solution

The correct options are
A Potassium permanganate

B Hydrochloric acid

Chlorine gas is prepared in the lab using potassium permanganate and hydrochloric acid. When the dark purple powders of the potassium permanganate salt
( $K M n O_{4}$ ) reacts with hydrochloric acid ( $H C l$ ), potassium chloride, manganese chloride, water and chlorine is produced as products.
$2 K M n O_{4} + 16 H C l \to 2 K C l + 2 M n C l_{2} + 8 H_{2} O + 5 C l_{2}$

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In the laboratory preparation of hydrochloric acid, the reactants used are:

An acid which can decolourise purple coloured potassium permanganate solution is :

(a) sulphuric acid (b) citric acid

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