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The diagrams below represent two allotropes of Sulphur. Study them and answer the questions which follow:-

      

The diagrams below represent two allotropes of Sulphur. Study them and answer the questions which follow:-
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(i) Name the two allotropes labelled X and Y
(ii) (I) Explain why a piece of burning magnesium continues to burn in a gas jar of Sulphur (IV) Oxide
(II) Explain how one of the products formed in (I) above can be obtained from the mixture

  

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Maurice
i) X – Rhombic

Y – Monoclinic

ii) I) Mg has a higher affinity for combined oxygen than S.
II) Add dilute nitric acid to the mixture. It reacts with MgO to form Mg (NO3)2
Filter to obtain S as residue.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on October 24, 2019 at 07:45


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