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Why chloroform is stored in closed dark coloured bottles completely filled with it?
Q. Why chloroform is stored in closed dark coloured bottles completely filled with it?
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A
It is slowly reduced by air in the presence of light to carbonyl chloride
11%
B
It is slowly oxidised by air to carbonyl chloride
9%
C
It gets slowly reduced by air to carbonyl chloride
3%
D
It gets slowly oxidised by air in the presence of light, to carbonyl chloride
77%
Solution:
Chloroform is stored in dark coloured bottles completely filled so that air is kept out.