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CO gets readily absorbed in ammoniacal silver nitrate solution but `CO_2` does not-explain.

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Due to presence of an unshared electron pair on carbon, CO acting as a Lewis base, combines with ammoniacal cuprous chloride to form a stable and soluble complex. No such reaction takes place in the cas of `CO_2` because in it carbon has no unshared electron pair,
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