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  Practical Organic Chemistry
    1.0 Detection of Elements in Organic Compound
    2.0 Summary of Solubilitiy Behaviour
    3.0 Detection of Functional Group
    4.0 Methods of Separation of Mono-functional Organic Compounds from Binary Mixtures
    5.0 Separation based on Differences in the volatilities of the component in aqueous solution
    6.0 Determination of Empirical Formula and Molecular Formula
    7.0 Solved Example (Subjective)

1.4 Soda lime test for nitrogen

Many organic compounds on heating with soda lime $(CaO + NaOH)$ give the smell of ammonia.\[\mathop {C{H_3}CON{H_2}}\limits_{Acetamide} \; + \;NaOH\;\xrightarrow[\Delta ]{{CaO}}\;C{H_3}COONa\; + \;N{H_3} \uparrow \]\[N{H_2}CON{H_2}\; + \;2NaOH\;\xrightarrow[\Delta ]{{CaO}}\;N{a_2}C{O_3} + 2N{H_3} \uparrow \]

Nitro and diazo compounds do not give ammonia on heating with soda lime.

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