Chemistry

Periodic Classification and Elements

1,176 Questions

Periodic classification organizes chemical elements based on atomic structure, periodic laws, and elemental properties. It covers historical classification systems, electron configurations, and periodic trends. Test takers preparing for chemistry sections will find these questions crucial for mastering fundamental element properties and atomic interactions.

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Periodic Classification and Elements Questions

Multiple choice

What is the symbol of cadmium?

  1. Cd

  2. Cm

  3. Ca

  4. Cs
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Cadmium is a soft, bluish-white metal with atomic number 48. Its chemical symbol is Cd. The other options represent different elements: Cm is curium, Ca is calcium, and Cs is cesium. Cadmium is commonly used in batteries and as a pigment.

Multiple choice

Which among the following statements is/are false about ground state term?

  1. For ground state term, the value of spin multiplicity is the highest.
  2. If more than two states have the same spin multiplicity, then the term having the lowest value of L will be ground state term.
  3. For half filled or less than half filled orbital, the ground state term is that which has the highest value of J.

  1. Only 1

  2. Only 2

  3. Only 3

  4. 2 and 3

  5. 1 and 2
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D Correct answer
Explanation

This option is correct. If there are several terms with the same multiplicity, then the term having the largest value of L will be ground state term. For half filled or less than half filled orbital, the ground state term is that which has the lowest value of J. This option is wrong because statement 1 is correct.

Multiple choice

Which rare element would you associate with Marie and Pierre Curie?

  1. Platinum

  2. Diamond

  3. Radium

  4. Uranium
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Marie and Pierre Curie are famous for their research on radioactivity and for discovering radium and polonium in 1898. Radium became the element most closely associated with their work and led to their Nobel Prize in Physics. While they also worked with uranium, radium was their groundbreaking discovery.

Multiple choice

The smallest of all atoms are

  1. Helium atoms

  2. Hydrogen atoms

  3. Oxygen atoms

  4. Uranium atoms
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Hydrogen atoms are the smallest because hydrogen has the lowest atomic number (1), meaning it has only one proton and typically one electron. Helium has 2 protons and electrons, oxygen has 8, and uranium has 92. The size of an atom is primarily determined by its number of protons and electron shells.

Multiple choice

Beryllium does not exhibit coordination number greater than 4 because of

  1. non-availability of s orbital

  2. non-availability of p orbital

  3. non-availability of d orbital

  4. none of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

this option is correct because in electronic configuration of be is 1s22s2 which is not involving d orbitals hence it cannot extend its coordination number more than four as its it not having a d orbital.