KVPY Sample Paper KVPY Stream-SX Model Paper-17

  • question_answer
    \[N{{a}_{2}}{{S}_{2}}{{O}_{3}}.5{{H}_{2}}O\] Sodium thiosulphate is used in photography to:

    A) remove reduced silver

    B) remove undecomposed AgBr as soluble silver thiosulphate complex

    C) convert the metallic silver to silver salt

    D) reduce the silver bromide grains to metallic silver

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

    \[2N{{a}_{2}}{{S}_{2}}{{O}_{3}}+\underset{\text{Unexposed}}{\mathop{AgBr}}\,\xrightarrow{{}}N{{a}_{3}}\,[Ag\,{{({{S}_{2}}{{O}_{3}})}_{2}}]+NaBr\] This property is used for fixing in photography.


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