Of heating. Or when the lake is exposed to boil because of the temperature.
Answer: On losing 6 moles of water, cobalt chloride forms unstable violet-coloured ions, before generating its stable blue-coloured anhydrous form.
Explanation:
The hydrated cobalt chloride loses its 6 water of crystallization, then dissociates into ions: cobalt ions and chlorine ions that appear violet, and quickly combined to form the stable anhydrous Cobalt chloride with blue colour.
The first bond between two atoms is always a sigma bond and the other bonds are always pi bonds and a hybridized orbital cannot be involved in a pi bond. Thus we need to leave one electron (in case of Carbon double bond) to let the Carbon have the second bond as a pi bond.
