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Q. On warming with silver powder, chloroform is converted to:

KEAMKEAM 2001

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On warming with silver powder, chloroform is converted to acetylene as follows,
$ \underset{chloroform}{\mathop{2CHC{{l}_{3}}}}\,+\underset{\begin{smallmatrix} (silver \\ powder) \end{smallmatrix}}{\mathop{6Ag}}\,\xrightarrow[{}]{\Delta }6AgCl+\underset{acetylene}{\mathop{HC\equiv CH}}\, $