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Aluminium sulphide gives a foul odour when it become damp. Write a balanced chemical equation for the reaction.

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Aluminium sulphide gives a foul odour when it becomes damp because it is a salt of weak acid and weak base. So upon hydrolysis, hydrogen sulphide is produced which has a rotten egg-like smell.
`Al_(2)S_(3) +6H_(2)O rarr 2Al(OH)_(3) darr + 3H_(2)S`.
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