Multiple choice

Which one of the follwoing processes is involved in the synthesis of potassium cyanide?

  1. Acheson's process

  2. Mac-Arthur forest cyanide process

  3. Castner's process

  4. Beilby's process

  5. None of these
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D Correct answer
Explanation

This option is correct because ammonia gas passed over the mixture of fused potassium carbonates and carbon to produce potassium cyanide, crystalline out by evaporation to obtain pure potassium cyanide.

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