JEE Main Chemistry question
Soldiers of Napoleon's army while at the Alps during freezing winter suffered a serious problem as regards the tin buttons of their uniform. While metallic tin buttons got converted to grey powder. This transformation is related to
Answer: (C)
Solution
At very low temperature, white (tetragonal) tin converts to grey (cubic) tin — an allotropic/crystallographic transformation ("tin pest") that causes the metal to
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