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Heating sodium butanoate, , with soda lime gives mainly:

  1. AButane
  2. BPropane
  3. CEthane
  4. DPentane

Answer: B

Soda-lime decarboxylation removes the carboxyl carbon as carbonate, replacing by H. therefore gives (propane), an alkane with one carbon fewer.
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