## PASSAGE 24 - When an aqueous solution of a colourless mixture of two salts is…
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## PASSAGE 24
- When an aqueous solution of a colourless mixture of two salts is treated with a drop of chlorine water, the solution becomes brown. Some chloroform is added to the brown solution and the resulting mixture is shaken well. The chloroform layer becomes violet.
- When chlorine water is again added dropwise to the above mixture, the chloroform layer becomes colourless.
- On being heated with solid K2Cr2O7 and concentrated H2SO4 , the solid mixture gives vapours of a dark colour which form a yellow solution with aqueous NaOH . On acidification with acetic acid followed by treatment with lead acetate, the yellow solution gives a yellow precipitate.
- When boiled with an NaOH solution, the mixture gives a gas that produces thick white fumes with HCl vapours and turns Nessler's reagent brown. The mixture does not respond to any other test for cations.
- The mixture, on being heated, gets completely sublimed.
Which of the following reactions takes place in (ii)?
(1) I2+2Cl−⟶2I−+Cl2↑
(2) Br2+2Cl−⟶2Br−+Cl2↑
(3) I3−+8Cl2+9H2O⟶3IO3−+16Cl−+18H+
(4) Br3−+8Cl2+9H2O⟶3BrO3−+16Cl−+18H+