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How will you prepare nitric acid?

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Solution :Nitric acid prepared by heating EQUAL AMOUNTS of POTASSIUM or sodium nitrate with CONCENTRATED sulphuric acid.
`KNO_(3)+H_(2)SO_(4)rarrKHSO_(4)+HNO_(3)`
The temperature is kept as low as possible to avoid decomposition of nitric acid. The acid condennses to a fuming liquids which is coloured brown by the presence of a little nitrogen dioxide which is formed DUE to the decomposition of nitric acid.
`4HNO_(3)rarr 4NO_(2)+2H_(2)O+O_(2)`


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