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Questions Related to coal

What is used in manufacturing of steel?

  1. Coal

  2. Coal tar

  3. Coke

  4. Glass


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Coke is used in the manufacture of steel and extraction of many metals.

Naphthalene balls are obtained from:

  1. coke

  2. plants

  3. coal tar

  4. petroleum


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Naphthalene is industrially prepared from coal tar. 

Which is the source of more number of industrial products?

  1. Kerosene

  2. Coal tar

  3. Coke

  4. Natural gas


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Coal tar is used in producing industrially dyes, paints, photographic plates etc.

Which is used in extraction of metals?

  1. Coal gas

  2. Coal tar

  3. Coke

  4. Petrol


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Coke is used in manufacturing of steel and extraction of many metal.

Which gas among the following can be used as fuel?

  1. Air

  2. Nitrogen gas

  3. Coal gas

  4. Carbon dioxide gas


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The fuel should release the great amount of energy when combusted under specific conditions. Coal gas has high calorific value.

Which is an almost pure form of carbon?

  1. Coke

  2. Coal tar

  3. Coal gas

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Coke is a fuel with few impurities and a high carbon content, usually made from coal. It is the solid carbonaceous material derived from destructive distillation of low-ash, low-sulfur bituminous coal. Coal tar and coal gas contain more impurities than coke.

Coke is used in the preparation of:

  1. $CO + {H} _{2}$

  2. $CO + {N} _{2}$

  3. graphite artificially

  4. diamond artificially


Correct Option: A,B,C
Explanation:

Coke is used in the preparation of water gas(A), coal gas(B) and graphite but it is not used in the preparation of diamond.

Among the following, which is not the component of coal gas?

  1. Methane

  2. Hydrogen

  3. Oxygen

  4. Carbon dioxide


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Coal gas contains calorific gases like hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide and many hydrocarbons and non-calorific gases like nitrogen and carbon dioxide.


The composition of coal gas varied according to the type of coal and the temperature of carbonisation. Typical figures were:

hydrogen 50%
methane 35%
carbon monoxide 10%
ethylene 5%


Hence, the correct option is $\text{C}$

Petroleum is also known as Black gold?

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Petroleum has been nicknamed as the black gold because petroleum is very costly to extract, and black in colour.

Which coal is the generally the primary source of coke production?

  1. Leguminous coal

  2. Bituminous coal

  3. Black coal

  4. All of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Bituminous coal is the primary source of production of coke. It contains highest percentage of carbon.