Chemistry

Chemical Compounds and Reactions

329 Questions

Chemical compounds and reactions involve understanding the properties, colors, and formation of various chemical substances. Questions focus on identifying precipitates, observing color changes during reactions, and naming common compounds. This topic is a fundamental part of the chemistry syllabus for competitive exams.

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Chemical Compounds and Reactions Questions

Multiple choice
  1. Formic acid and tollen reagent

  2. Formic acid and fehling solution

  3. 2-pentanone is catalysed by I2+NaOH/NaOI

  4. 3-pentanone

  5. Only option (3) and (4)

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

This option is correct because formic acid and Fehling solution react to produce cuprous oxide, which gives reddish brown precipitate.

Multiple choice
  1. zinc induces the precipitation

  2. zinc prevents the reduction of aniline during the reaction

  3. zinc reduces the coloured impurities in the aniline and also prevents its oxidation during the reaction

  4. zinc forms the white crystalline complex with aniline

  5. Only (3) and (4)

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

This option is correct because acetanilide are formed by the aniline due to the addition of zinc, this reduces the coloured impurities of the aniline and also prevents the oxidation of the reaction.

Multiple choice
  1. colourless

  2. brown in colour

  3. blue in colour

  4. green in colour

  5. yellow in colour

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Copper sulphate is blue in colour because it has been oxidised to the Cu2+ ion which is a d-block metal ion.

Multiple choice
  1. copper(II) nitrate

  2. copper(I) oxide

  3. copper(II) oxide

  4. copper(II) sulfate

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Copper(I) oxide or cuprous oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula Cu2O. It is one of the principal oxides of copper. This red-coloured solid is a component of antifouling paints.

Multiple choice
  1. Beryllium sulfate

  2. Beryllium telluride

  3. Bismuth (III) oxide

  4. Bismuth telluride

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Bismuth(III) oxide is found naturally as a mineral bismite and sphaerobismoite but it is usually obtained as a by-product of the smelting of copper and lead ores. Bismuth trioxide is commonly used to produce the Dragon's eggs effect in fireworks, as a replacement of red lead.

Multiple choice
  1. lithium nitrate

  2. lithium sulfate

  3. magnesium carbonate

  4. magnesium chloride

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

It is lithium salt of nitric acid. It is made by reacting lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide with nitric acid.This deliquescent colourless salt is an oxidizing agent used in the manufacture of red-coloured fireworks and flares.

Multiple choice
  1. Potassium perchlorate

  2. Potassium permanganate

  3. Potassium sulfate

  4. Potassium sulfide

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Potassium permanganate is an inorganic chemical compound with the formula KMnO4. Formerly known as permanganate of potash or Condy's crystals, it is a strong oxidizing agent. It dissolves in water to give intensely purple solutions, the evaporation of which leaves prismatic purplish-black glistening crystals.

Multiple choice
  1. Praseodymium(III) chloride

  2. Radium chloride

  3. Radon difluoride

  4. Rhodium(III) chloride

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Radium chloride is a white solid with a blue-green luminescence, especially when heated. It is less soluble in water than other alkaline earth metal chlorides. It is still used in the initial stages of the separation of radium from barium during the extraction of radium from pitchblende.

Multiple choice
  1. iodine pentafluoride

  2. gold(III) fluoride

  3. diethylaminosulfur trifluoride

  4. cyanuric fluoride

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Cyanuric fluoride or 2,4,6-trifluoro-1,3,5-triazine is a colourless, pungent liquid. It has been used as a precursor for fibre-reactive dyes, as a specific reagent for tyrosine residues in enzymes, and as a fluorinating agent.

Multiple choice
  1. sodium chromate

  2. potassium dichromate

  3. potassium ferricyanide

  4. cobalt(II) chloride

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Potassium ferricyanide is the chemical compound with the formula K3[Fe(CN)6]. This bright red salt contains the octahedrally coordinated [Fe(CN)6]3− ion. The compound has widespread use in blueprint drawing and in photography (Cyanotype process). Potassium ferricyanide is used as an oxidizing agent to remove silver from negatives and positives, a process called dot etching.

Multiple choice
  1. silver phosphate

  2. silver nitrate

  3. silver chloride

  4. none of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

AgNO3 is silver nitrate, used in photography and medicine. Silver phosphate would be Ag3PO4, silver chloride is AgCl, and none of these is incorrect since B is right.

Multiple choice
  1. FeSO4, 7H2O

  2. ZnSO4, 7H2O

  3. MgSO4, 7H2O

  4. CuSO4, 7H2O

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

White vitriol is the historical name for zinc sulfate heptahydrate (ZnSO₄·7H₂O). The 'vitriol' name comes from vitriolum (sulfate salts). Different vitriols are distinguished by color - blue vitriol (copper sulfate), green vitriol (iron(II) sulfate), white vitriol (zinc sulfate), and Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate).

Multiple choice
  1. Potassium nonahydridorhenate

  2. Potassium octachlorodimolybdate

  3. Potassium peroxymonosulphate

  4. Potassium sodium tartrate

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Potassium sodium tartrate is a colourless to blue-white salt crystallizing in the orthorhombic system. It has a specific gravity of about 1.79, a melting point of approximately 75 °C, and has a saline, cooling taste. It has been used medicinally as a laxative. It has also been used in the process of silvering mirrors.