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A metal salt solution forms a yellow precipitate with potassium chromate in acetic acid, a white precipitate with dilute sulfuric acid, but gives no precipitate with sodium chloride or iodide, it is :

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a

barium carbonate

b

strontium carbonate

c

basic lead carbonate

d

lead carbonate

answer is C.

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Detailed Solution

For K2CrO4 in acetic, Pb and  Ba both produce yellow ppt and a white precipitate, respectively H2SO4. However, barium does not precipitate with sodium chloride or iodide, whereas lead salts do. This indicates that the barium salts in the supplied salt, when combined with sodium carbonate, produce a white precipitate of barium carbonate.

Hence, the correct option is C.

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