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Question
On heating which of the following substances i.e. copper carbonate, zinc carbonate, washing soda, copper sulphate, zinc nitrate, copper nitrate, lead nitrate, ammonium chloride and ammonium dichromate – relate to the reaction given below.
A white substance which leaves an amphoteric oxide as a residue [whose colour varies in the heated and in the cold state] and evolves a gas which turns lime water milky.
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Solution
Zinc carbonate [ZnCO3].
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