Roasting of sulphides gives the gas X as a by-product. This is a colourless gas with the choking smell of burnt sulphur and causes great damage to respiratory organs as a result of acid rain. Its aqueous solution is acidic acts as a reducing agent and its acid has never been isolated. The gas X is
-
H2S
-
SO2
-
CO2
-
H2SO3
B.
SO2
SO2 gas is obtained when any sulphide ore is roasted.
This gas (x) SO2 exhibits all the characteristics given in the equation.