Roasting of sulphids gives the gas X as a by-product. This is colorless gas with the chocking smell of burnt sulfur and caused great damage to respiratory organs as a result of acid rain. Its aqueous solutions is acidic, acts as a reducing agent and its acid has never been isolated.The gas X is:
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Acid rain -
Rainfall and other precipitation with a pH of less than 5.6 . Acidic components, sulphuric acid and nitric acid,
are emitted into the atmosphere from thermal power plants, industries, automobiles.
- wherein
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