The set-up below is used to prepare dry sulphur (IV) Oxide in the laboratory. Answer questions that follow:

      

The set-up below is used to prepare dry sulphur (IV) Oxide in the laboratory. Answer questions
that follow:
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(a) Identify the mistake in the set-up
(b) Write an equation for the reaction in the set-up
(c) State how the polluting effects of the gas on the environment can be controlled

  

Answers


Maurice
a) Method of collection is wrong.Should be collected by downward delivery/upward
displacement of air since the gas is denser than air.

b) Na2SO3(s) + H2SO4(aq)------->Na2SO4(aq) + SO2(g) + H2O(l)

c) By passing it through calcium hydroxide in which the gas dissolves.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on October 24, 2019 at 06:33


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