AIEEE 2004 | p-Block Elements Question 236 | Chemistry

Aluminium chloride exists as dimer, Al₂Cl₆ in solid state as well as in solution of non-polar solvents such as benzene. When dissolved in water, it gives :

Al3⁺ + 3Cl^-

Al₂O₃ + 6HCl

[Al(OH)₆]^3-

[Al(H₂O)₆]³⁺ + 3Cl^-

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The soldiers of Napolean army while at Alps during freezing winter suffered a serious problem as regards to the tin buttons of their uniforms. White metallic tin buttons got converted to grey power. The transformation is related to :

a change in the partial pressure of oxygen in the air

a change in the crystalline structure of tin

an interaction with nitrogen of the air at very low temperature

an interaction with water vapor contained in the humid air

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Graphite is a soft solid lubricant extremely difficult to melt. The reason for this anomalous behaviour is that graphite :

is an allotropic form of diamond

has molecules of variable molecular masses like polymers

has carbon atoms arranged in large plates of rings of strongly bound carbon atoms with weak interplate bonds