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Please anyone tell Why do white fumes appear around the bottle of anhydrous AlCl3.

Please anyone tell
Why do white fumes appear around the bottle of anhydrous AlCl3.

Grade:12

1 Answers

Abhishek Srivastava
103 Points
2 years ago
Dear student
Anhydrous AlCl3 is hydrolysed with water vapours present in atmosphere.
AlCl3 + H2O → HCl + Al2O3
HCl gas is thus released, which is white in colour.
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