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CUET · CHEMISTRY · PYQ PAPER 2023

Answer the question on the basis of passage given below :
There are some deposits of nitrates and phosphates in the earth’s crust. Nitrates are more soluble in water. Nitrates are difficult to reduce under laboratory conditions, but microbes do it easily. Ammonia forms a large number of complexes with transition metals. Hybridisation easily explains the ease of sigma donation capability of NH₃ and PH₃. Phosphine is an inflammable gas, it is prepared from white phosphorus.
White phosphorus on reacting with NaOH gives \(NaH _2 PO _2\) and \(PH _3\) as products. This is an example of.

  1. A Dimerisation reaction
  2. B Disproportionation reaction
  3. C Condensation reaction
  4. D Precipitation reaction
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(B) Disproportionation reaction

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Oxidation state of P in \(P_4\): \(0\) Oxidation state of P in \(PH_3\): \(-3\) Oxidation state of P in \(NaH_2PO_2\): \(+1\) This is a disproportionation reaction.
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