Question

Zinc oxide is normally white but turns yellow on heating and becomes white again on cooling, because of

Answer 1

Crystals that shows such type of defects are generally colored. Zinc oxide is white in color but on heating it turns into yellow because on heating it loses oxygen reversibly at high temperature.

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Answer 2

Formation of colour center which has a free electron due to removal of oxygen