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Grade 11Physical Chemistry

20mL of a mixture of C2H2 and CO was exploded with 30ml of oxygen. the gases after the reaction had a volume of 34ml. On treatment with KOH, 8 ml of 02 remained. Calculate the composition of mixture. [C2H2- 6ml; CO - 14ml)

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80 mL of oxygen is added to 50 ml of a mixture of H2, C2H2 and CO, after which the total mixture is burnt. the volume of the cooled mixture after combustion measures 65mL. this is reduced to 15 mL by treatment with a KOH solution. Calculate the volume of each gas in the original mixture.