Practical Chemistry — Question 42

Question 5(2020)

Identify the salts P, Q, R from the following observations:

(i) Salt P has light bluish green colour. On heating, it produces a black coloured residue. Salt P produces brisk effervescence with dil. HCl and the gas evolved turns lime water milky, but no action with acidified potassium dichromate solution.

(ii) Salt Q is white in colour. On strong heating, it produces buff yellow residue and liberates reddish brown gas. Solution of salt Q produces chalky white insoluble ppt. with excess of ammonium hydroxide.

(iii) Salt R is black in colour. On reacting with conc. HCl, it liberates a pungent greenish yellow gas which turns moist starch iodide paper blue black.