STD X-Practice - 5 Marks Questions
STD X-Practice - 5 Marks Questions
STD X-Practice - 5 Marks Questions
On heating blue coloured powder of copper (II) nitrate in a boiling tube, copper side oxygen
gas and a brown gas X is formed.
(b) Identify the brown gas X evolved. (c) Identify the type of reaction. (d) What could be the pH
range of aqueous solution of the gas X?
Q .2 What happens when a piece of (a) zinc metal is added to copper sulphate solution?
(c) silver metal is added to copper sulphate solution? Also, write the balanced chemical
equation if the reaction occurs.
Q.3. On adding a drop of barium chloride solution to an aqueous solution of sodium sulphite,
white precipitate is obtained.. (a) Write a balanced chemical equation of the reaction involved.
(b) What other name can be given to this precipitation reaction? (c) On adding dilute
hydrochloric acid to the reaction mixture, white precipitate disappears.
Why?
Q.4. Identify the acids and bases which form the following salts and write whether these salts
are acidic, basic or neutral. Justify your answer in each case.
Q.5. (a) With the help of a diagram explain the method of refining of copper by electrolysis.
(b) How are broken railway tracks joined? Give the name of the process and the chemical Ans.
(a) Copper is refined electrolytically. In this process, impure copper is taken as anode and a
Q.6. (a) How is the method of extraction of metals high up in the reactivity series differ that for
metals in the middle? Why cannot the same process be applied for both?
Q.8. Draw the structural formulae of all the possible isomers of the compound formula C2H6O
and also give their electron dot structures.
Q10. (a) List in tabular form five main differences between soaps and detergents.
(b) Why are detergents made of molecules in which branching is minimum, preferred