Give an example of a carbon compound which burns with a sooty flame?
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Give an example of a carbon compound which burns with a sooty flame?
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Answer: Ethyne (acetylene)
The unsaturated hydrocarbons burns with a yellow, sooty flame due to incomplete combustion of the hydrocarbon in air. This produces sooty flame because of the fact that the large amount of carbon does not completely oxidized in the air.