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A hot silver foil is tarnished when exposed to ozone. Why ?

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Solution :Silver METAL is oxidised by ozone to silver oxide. This oxide is REDUCES BACK to finely divided silver metal, which is black.
`2AG + O_3 rarr Ag_2O + O_2` (oxidation)
`Ag_2O + O_3 rarr 2 Ag + 2O_2` (reduction)
These are called MUTUAL reduction reactions.


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