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Question
Study the figure given below and answer the questions which follow:

- Identify the gas Y.
- What property of gas Y does this experiment demonstrate?
- Name another gas which has the same property and can be demonstrated through this experiment.
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Solution
- The gas Y is HCl (hydrogen chloride).
- The fountain experiment demonstrates the extreme solubility of hydrogen chloride gas.
- Ammonia gas is another gas that has the same property and can be demonstrated through this experiment.
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Gas obtained by treating metals with hydrochloric acid.
How is the gas collected and why?
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HCI gas is heavier than air.
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Chlorine?
How will you show that hychloric acid contains both hydrogen and chlorine (other than by electrolysis) ?
Give reason for the following:
Dilute hydrochloric acid cannot be concentrated by distilling (boiling) the dilute acid.

(a) Name the experiment illustrate above.
(b) Which property of hydrogen chloride is demonstrated by this experiment?
(c) State the colour of the water that has entered the round-bottomed flask.
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.
- Name the experiment illustrated below.
- State the colour of the water that has entered the round-bottomed flask.

State the following:
The drying agent used in the laboratory preparation of HCl gas.
