Home
Class 11
CHEMISTRY
White fumes appear around the bottle of ...

White fumes appear around the bottle of anhydrous aluminium chloride. Give reason.

Text Solution

Verified by Experts

When anhydrous aluminium chloride comes in contact with water drops present in atmosphere, it gets hydrolysed to give fumes of hydrogen chloride gas. These are extremely suffocating as well as poisonous is nature.
`AlCl_(3)(s)+3H_(2)OrarrA(OH)_(3)-3HCl(g)`
Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

  • P BLOCK ELEMENTS (GROUP 13 AND 14 )

    DINESH PUBLICATION|Exercise Problems|3 Videos

  • P BLOCK ELEMENTS (GROUP 13 AND 14 )

    DINESH PUBLICATION|Exercise Value based|2 Videos

  • P BLOCK ELEMENTS (GROUP 13 AND 14 )

    DINESH PUBLICATION|Exercise Short answer type|24 Videos

  • ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - SOME BASIC PRINCIPLES & TECHNIOUES

    DINESH PUBLICATION|Exercise PURIFICATION & CHARACTERISATION OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS|38 Videos

  • PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIA

    DINESH PUBLICATION|Exercise ULTIMATE PREPARATORY PACKAGE|13 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

Anhydrous aluminium chloride is prepared by

Anhydrous aluminium chloride is used as a catalyst.

Benzene reacts with methyl chloride in the presence of anhydrous aluminium chloride to give toluene. The reaction is an example of

Aluminium chloride exists as dimer. Give reason.

Which of the following statement about anhydrous aluminium chloride is correct?

Which of the following statements about anhydrous aluminium chloride is correct?

DINESH PUBLICATION-P BLOCK ELEMENTS (GROUP 13 AND 14 )-Concept based
  1. Why is+2oxidiation state of lead more stable than +4 oxidation state?

    Text Solution

    |

  2. Diagonal Relationship Between Beryllium And Aluminium

    Text Solution

    |

  3. White fumes appear around the bottle of anhydrous aluminium chloride. ...

    Text Solution

    |

  4. Boron is unable to form BF(6)^(3-)– ion. Explain.

    Text Solution

    |

  5. Why is boric acid considered as a weak acid ?

    Text Solution

    |

  6. In elements of group 14. (a) which forms the most acidic oxide (b)...

    Text Solution

    |

  7. [SiF(6)]^(2-) is a well known compound but [SiCl(6)[^(2-) is not. Expl...

    Text Solution

    |

  8. Diamond is covalent, yet it has high melting point. Why ?

    Text Solution

    |

  9. What are alums? Give the chemcial formulae of the following alums:

    Text Solution

    |

  10. Which importan t properties of aluminium are responsible for its great...

    Text Solution

    |

  11. Account for the foolowing: (a) Aluminium is not prepared by carrying...

    Text Solution

    |

  12. Carbon does not form any complesses while slicon particlipates in the ...

    Text Solution

    |

  13. Why is SnCl(2) more easly formed than SnCl(4)?

    Text Solution

    |

  14. PbCl(4) exists but PbBr(4) and PbI(4) do not because of

    Text Solution

    |

  15. Point out the false statements in the following: (a) Lead shows allo...

    Text Solution

    |

  16. (a) Why is boric acid considered as a weak acid. (b) Discuss the str...

    Text Solution

    |

  17. Write the reactions of B(2)H(6) with (a) H(2)O (b) O(2) (c) NH(3).

    Text Solution

    |

  18. What are silicones ?

    Text Solution

    |

  19. Explain structures of diborane and boric acid.

    Text Solution

    |

  20. At room temperature, CO(2) is a gas while SiO(2) is a solid because

    Text Solution

    |