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Question
Account for the yellow colour that appears in concentrated nitric acid when it is left standing in an ordinary glass bottle.
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Solution
In a glass apparatus nitric acid gets decomposed by sunlight. Yellowish brown colour of nitric acid is due to the presence of nitrogen dioxide formed due to thermal decomposition of nitric acid.
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