Question

Explain the laboratory methods of methane preparation? and write the physical and chemical
characters of methane?

Answer 1

Answer:

methane is formed by heating sodium ethanoate with a mixture of sodium hydroxide and calcium oxide, called soda lime, on heating in the presence of a catalyst, calcium oxide, the -COONa group from sodium ethanoate is replaced by the hydrogen atom from sodium hydroxide, forming methane and sodium hydroxide gets converted into sodium carbonate.