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Question
Name the products formed when carbon and conc. nitric acid is heated.
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Solution
Heating carbon with nitric acid results in the oxidation of carbon to CO2 and the reduction of nitric acid to NO2 by oxygen loss.
\[\ce{C + 4HNO3 -> CO2 + 2H2O + 4NO2}\]
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