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AP EAMCET · Chemistry · p Block Elements (Group 15, 16, 17 & 18)

The shape of colourless neutral gas formed on thermal decomposition of ammonium nitrate is

  1. A Angular
  2. B Linear
  3. C Trigonal planar
  4. D Trigonal pyramidal
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(B) Linear

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Ammonium nitrate \(\left(\mathrm{NH}_4 \mathrm{NO}_3\right)\) on thermal decomposition produces \(\mathrm{N}_2 \mathrm{O}\) and \(\mathrm{H}_2 \mathrm{O}\) \(\mathrm{NH}_4 \mathrm{NO}_3 \longrightarrow \mathrm{~N}_2 \mathrm{O}\) (colourless gas) \(+\mathrm{H}_2 \mathrm{O}\)…