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Chloroform is stored in dark coloured bottles. Explain in not more than two sentence.

Solution

Chloroform in the presence of air and sunlight oxidises slowly to form a highly poisonous compound called phosgene or carbonyl chloride. To avoid the oxidation of chloroform, it is kept in dark or yellow coloured bottles and filled up to the brim.

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