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Chloroform is treated with aqueous silver nitrate. What happens?

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Solution :Pure chloroform does not give precipitate, as the C-Cl bond does not FURNISH free CHLORIDE. IMPURE chloroform gives a white silver chloride precipitate.
`CHCl_(3) + (O) rarr COCl_(2) + HCl`
`HCl + AgNO_(3) rarr AgCl darr + HNO_(3)`


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