Chemistry 9701 · AS & A Level · Electrochemistry

Electrochemistry — practice question

Chlorine is passed as bubbles through a cylinder that holds aqueous sodium iodide and a hexane layer that does not mix with it. As the bubbles move through the cylinder, what is seen in the lower layer and in the upper layer?

  • Alower aqueous layer: colourless solution becomes brown; upper hexane layer: colourless liquid becomes coloured
  • Blower aqueous layer: colourless solution becomes brown; upper hexane layer: colourless liquid is unchanged
  • Clower aqueous layer: brown solution becomes colourless; upper hexane layer: colourless liquid becomes coloured
  • Dlower aqueous layer: brown solution becomes colourless; upper hexane layer: colourless liquid is unchanged

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