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Write Your Observation and a Balanced Equation in the Case of the Following Substances Being Heated. Copper Nitrate. - Chemistry

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Write your observation and a balanced equation in the case of the following substances being heated.

Copper nitrate. 

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Solution

Copper nitrate is a blue coloured crystal.

When copper nitrate is heated it loses the water molecule and then when is further heated it decomposes to give reddish-brown gas, nitrogen dioxide, and oxygen.

\[\ce{Cu(NO3)2.3H2O ->[heat] Cu(NO3)2 + 3H2O}\]

\[\ce{2Cu(NO3)2 ->[Heat] 2CuO + 4NO2 + O2}\]

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Chapter 9: Practical Work - Exercise 9 (B) [Page 146]

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Selina Concise Chemistry [English] Class 9 ICSE
Chapter 9 Practical Work
Exercise 9 (B) | Q 4.2 | Page 146
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