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Calcium carbide is used for the artificial ripening of fruits. Actually, the fruit ripens because of the heat evolved while calcium carbide reacts with moisture. During this reaction calcium hydroxide and acetylene gas is formed. If 200 cm3 of acetylene is formed from a certain mass of calcium carbide, find the volume of oxygen required and carbon dioxide formed during the complete combustion. The combustion reaction can be represented as below :

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Applying **-Lussac' law on the equation

500 cc of oxygen is required and 400 cc of carbon dioxide will formed.

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