When a lead strip is inserted into a copper chloride solution then products will be ______

Green solution with crimson red metal on lead strip

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Only colourless solution

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Colourless solution with shiny brown metal on lead strip

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Blue solution with white precipitate

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Solution

The correct option is C
Colourless solution with shiny brown metal on lead strip

When a strip of lead metal is placed in a solution of copper chloride, then lead chloride solution and copper metal are formed. The green colour of copper chloride fades and the solution becomes colourless.

$P b (s) + C u C l_{2} (a q) \to P b C l_{2} (a q) + C u (s)$

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