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Chapter 4 : Carbon and its compounds
Q. What is hydrogenation? What is its industrial application?
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Q. How can ethanol and ethanoic acid be differentiated on the basis of their physical and chemical properties?
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Q. Why are carbon and its compounds used as fuels for most applications?
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Q. Why does micelle formation take place when soap is added to water? Will a micelle be formed in other solvents such as ethanol also?
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Q. What is an homologous series? Explain with an example.
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Q. Which of the following hydrocarbons undergo addiction reactions?
C2H6, C3H8, C3H6, C2H2 and CH4
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Q. Explain the mechanism of the cleaning action of soaps.
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Q. Explain the formation of scum when hard water is treated with soap.
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Q. Give a test that can be used to differentiate chemically between butter and cooking oil.
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Q. What change will you observe if you test soap with litmus paper (red and blue)?
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Q. Draw the electronic dot structures for :

(a) ethanoic acid
(b) H2S
(c) propanone
(d) F2
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Q. Explain the nature of the covalent bond using the bond formation in CH3Cl.
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Q. While cooking, if the bottom of the vessel is getting blackened on the outside, it means that:
  1. the food is not cooked completely
  2. the fuel is wet
  3. the fuel is not burning completely
  4. the fuel is burning completely
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Q. Ethane, with the molecular formula C2H6 has:
  1. 6 covalent bonds
  2. 7 covalent bonds
  3. 9 covalent bonds
  4. 8 covalent bonds
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Q. Butanone is a four-carbon compound with the functional group :
  1. aldehyde
  2. carboxylic acid
  3. alcohol
  4. ketone
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