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Q. 2.     A mixture of oxygen and ethyne is burnt for welding. Can you tell why a mixture of ethyne and air is not used?

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A mixture of oxygen and ethyne is burnt for welding. But a mixture of ethyne and air is not used. This is because ethyne undergoes incomplete combustion in air giving a sooty flame.

In oxygen, ethyne gives a clean flame with temperature as high as 3300 K due to complete combustion.

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