Assertion :Hydrogen chloride gas can be dried over quick lime. Reason: HCl is less reactive and it reacts with calcium oxide to form calcium oxychloride and does not absorb water in the reaction.
A
Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion
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B
Both Assertion and Reason are correct but Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion
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C
Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect
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D
Both Assertion and Reason are incorrect
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Solution
The correct option is D Both Assertion and Reason are incorrect
HCl gas can't be dried using CaO since it reacts with HCl as follows.
CaO+HCl→CaCl2+H2O
Formation of calcium oxychloride is given below, thus reason is incorrect.