An inorganic compound (X) made of two most occurring elements in the earth's crust and used builiding construction when heated in an electric arc furnace with carbon , forms a poisonous gas (Y) w

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An inorganic compound (X) made of two most occurring elements in the earth's crust and used builiding construction when heated in an electric arc furnace with carbon , forms a poisonous gas (Y) which is most stable diatomic molecule. Compound (X) and gas (Y) will be

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As the most occurring element in the earth crust is silicon as SiO₂and the chemical reaction of SiO₂with carbon produces CO which is poisonous gas as shown below

$\begin{matrix} {SiO}_{2} & + & 2 C & \to & Si & + & 2 CO \\ ↑ \\ Poisonous gas and \\ stable diaotmic molecule \end{matrix}$

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