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प्रश्न
Give reason for the following:
Dilute hydrochloric acid cannot be concentrated by distilling (boiling) the dilute acid.
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उत्तर
Dilute hydrochloric acid cannot be concentrated beyond 22.2% (by weight) by distillation.This is due to the fact that this mixture (77.8% water+22.2% HCI) is an azeotropic mixture, it boils at a constant temperature of 110°C without any change in concentration.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The aim of the Fountain experiment is to prove that ______.
Name :
Two colourless gases which when mixed produce a white solid.
How can you prove that hydrochloric acid contain :
Chlorine?
How will you show that hychloric acid contains both hydrogen and chlorine (other than by electrolysis) ?
Dilute hydrochloric acid is added in turn to a mixture of iron and sulphur and to the compound formed between iron and sulphur. Name the gas formed in each case.

The diagram shows an apparatus for the laboratory preparation of hydrogen chloride.
(i) Identify A and B
(ii) Write the equation for the reaction
(iii) How would you check whether or not the gas jar is filled with hydrogen chloride?
(iv) What does the method of collection tell you about the density of hydrogen chloride.
Study the figure given below and answer that questions that follow:
(i) Identify the gas Y.
(ii) What property of gas Y does this experiment demonstrate?
(iii) Name another gas which has the same property and can be demonstrated through this experiment.
The aim of the fountain experiment is to prove that
- Name the experiment illustrated below.
- State the colour of the water that has entered the round-bottomed flask.

Identify the terms for the following:
A method used to collect HCl gas.
