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What is decarboxylation? How is methane prepared from sodium ethanoate?
Asked by Topperlearning User | 22 Jul, 2014, 01:54: PM
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Sodium salts of carboxylic acids on heating with soda lime (mixture of sodiumhydroxide and calcium oxide) gives methane with one carbon atom less than the carboxylic acid.
CH3COO-Na+ + NaOH 
CH4 + Na2CO3
Answered by | 22 Jul, 2014, 03:54: PM
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