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Describe a method for the manufacture of ozone. Explain why ozone is not collected over mercury?
How does it react with (i) moist iodine and (ii) barium peroxide?

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Ozone is a powerful oxidising agent as it provides an atom of nascent oxygen. It oxidises mercury to mercurous oxide. The reaction is as follows:
`{:(" "O_3 rarr O_2 + [O]),(ul(2Hg + [O] rarr Hg_2O" ")),(O_3 + 2Hg rarr Hg_2O+ O_2):}`
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