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If copper is kept open in air, it slowly loses its shining brown surface and gains a green coating. It is due to the formation of

(a) CuSO4
(b) CuCO3
(c) Cu(NO3)2
(d) CuO

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Ans. (b)

Copper reacts with oxygen present in air and forms a green coating on its surface due to the formation of basic copper carbonate [CuCO3 and Cu(OH)2]

The reaction is given as:
2Cu + O2 (From air) + CO2 + H2O \rightarrowCuCO3 + Cu(OH)2
Basic copper carbonate(green coating)

Therefore option (B) is correct

 

 

 

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