What happens when (a) Solid sodium hydrogen carbonate is heated, (b) Chlorine gas is passed through dry slaked lime, (c) Gypsum is heated to a temperature of 373 K?

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(a) When Solid sodium hydrogen carbonate is heated from sodium chloride Na2CO3.10H2O (washing soda).

2NaHCO3 --------Heat----------> Na2CO3 +H2O+CO2

(b) when Chlorine gas is passed through dry slaked lime, Bleaching powder is produced. Bleaching powderis represented as CaOCl2, though the actual composition is quite complex.

Ca(OH)2 + Cl2 → CaOCl2 + H2O

(c) if Gypsum is heated to a temperature of 373 K it forms plaster of Paris, CaSO4 1/2 H2O

CaSO4 2H2O --- -373 K ------> CaSO4 1/2H2O + 3/2 H2O

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