When a little sulphur in a spoon is heated, it burns with a blue flame which slowly disappears after some time and we can feel a pungent odour. This pungent odour is due to:

carbon dioxide

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sulphur dioxide

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sulphur gas

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sulphuric acid

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Solution

The correct option is A sulphur dioxide
Sulphur burns with a blue flame concomitant with formation of sulphur dioxide notable for its peculiar suffocating odour.
Hence, the pungent odour is due to formation of $S O_{2}$ .

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