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On heating sodium propionate with sodalime the hydrocarbon obtained is:
  1. butane
  2. ethane
  3. propane
  4. ethene

A
butane
B
ethane
C
propane
D
ethene
Solution
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Sodium propionate reacts with soda lime (NaOH+CaO) to form ethane.

The reaction can be given as follows:

C2H5COONasodium propionate+NaOHCaO/Δ−−−CH3CH3+Na2CO3

Option (B) is correct.

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