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Which gas is evolved when a piece of a sodium is a added to ethanol ? Write the equation for the reaction involved.

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The gas evolved is the hydrogen gas.
`underset(" ethanol")(2C_(2)H_(5)OH) + underset("sodium")(2Na) to underset(" Sodium ethoxide")(2C_(2)H_(5)Ona) + underset(" hydrogen")H_(2)`
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