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SSC CHSL 2014 · Question 73 of 209

DIRECTIONS: In Questions Nos. 146-150, The diagram shows The gas produced in marshy places due to decomposition of vegetation is

  1. ACarbon monoxide
  2. BCarbon dioxide
  3. CSulphur dioxide
  4. DMethaneCorrect

Answer: D. Methane

Explanation

vegetation decomposes in water. Methane, also called marsh gas, colourless, odourless gas that occurs abundantly in nature as the chief constituent of natural gas, as a component of firedamp in coal mines, and as a product of the anaerobic bacterial decomposition of vegetable matter under water.

Source: SSC CHSL Solved Paper 16-11-2014 (Disha Publications) · reliable-secondary

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