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i Why HF acid is stored in wax coated glass bottles? ii Iodine is more soluble in KI than in 'H2O'. Why?

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HF does not attack wax but it reacts with glass. It dissolves .SiO., in glass forming fluorosilicic àcid .SiO_2+6 hatH F rarr H_2 SiF_b+2 H_2 O. Ans: lodine conbines with. Kl to form the soluble complex KI_y, KI+t_2 rarr KI_3
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