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Wednesday, January 13, 2021

What are heating effect of primary, secondary and tertiary salt of sodium phosphate?

NaH2PO4 (Primary phosphate) on heating undergo polymerization and form a stable hexamer salt (sodiummetaphosphate) which known as “CALGON” which also use as  water softener. And  Na2HPO4 (Secondary phosphate) on heating dimerised to form Sodium pyrophosphate  while no effect on (Na3PO4 )tertiary phosphate.

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Trisilyl amine, N(SiH3)3 is planar whereas trimethyl amines N(CH3)3 is pyramidal. Explain why?.

















Tuesday, December 22, 2020

How to basic beryllium nitrate is obtained from beryllium nitrates?

Their is a unique feature of Beryllium nitrate , on heating at low temperature (125℃) it give Basic Beryllium nitrate , nitrogen gas and oxygen gas but at high temperature (above 1000℃) it give same products like other bivalent nitrate salts.

Thursday, November 12, 2020

What is the heating effect on metallic nitrate salts ?

Nitrates are prepared by the action of nitric acid on a metal or its oxide, hydroxide or carbonate. All nitrates are soluble in water. On heating, the nitrates of the alkali metals yield only oxygen and the nitrite (Except Lithium).

Most of the nitrate salts of other metals on heating decompose to produce metal oxide ,nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and oxygen gas. (Except M= Na, K, Rb, Cs but lithium(Li) do as above)

If the metal oxides is unstable to heat, in which case the metal and oxygen are formed for example from nitrates of mercury (Hg), silver (Ag), Gold (Au), and Platinum (Pt) because Gibb”s free energy of formation of these oxides are positive. (for more details see “Ellingham diagram”).

Exception case: Ammonium nitrate gives dinitrogen oxide and steam:

Their is a unique feature of Beryllium nitrate , on heating at low temperature (125℃) it give Basic Beryllium nitrate , nitrogen gas and oxygen gas but at high temperature (above 1000℃) it give same products like other bivalent nitrate salts.


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Wednesday, October 7, 2020

What is effect of heat on Borax?

When borax is strongly heated on loop of platinum wire, it loses water and form dehydrated disodium tetra borate which is swells into the white mass, which on further heating disodium tetra borate melts to form a transparent glassy solid called borax glass and borax bead.

When a solution of given salt is heated on bead , then volatile part of salt displaced by B2O3  and corresponding metaborates salt is formed which gives Characteristic colour on oxidizing and reducing flame and colour of the bead is noted in hot and cold for each type of flame. This is also called "BORAX BEAD TEST"

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Why B-F bond length in BF3 is shorter (130 pm) than B-F bond Iength in BF4- (143 pm)?. Explain.

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Monday, April 13, 2020

Why both BeCO3 and BeSO4 are unstable to heat, while BaCO3 and BaSO4 are stable.Explain?

The decomposition of a salt is promoted by the formation of a new compound with high lattice energy. From BeCO3 and BeSO4, BeO will be formed by decomposition. The small doubly charged ions will result in very high lattice energy for BeO which will help to drive the reaction. (Reaction is also favoured by an increase in entropy since a gaseous product is formed).