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Question
How will you identify?
An amphoteric hydroxide
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Solution
Zinc hydroxide is an amphoteric hydroxide. It can be identified by treating the salt solution with sodium hydroxide, if a white ppt. is formed and if it gets dissolved in excess of sodium hydroxide then it may be zinc hydroxide.
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