Carbon and its Compounds

People use a variety of methods to wash clothes. Usually after adding the soap, they ‘beat’ the clothes on a stone, or beat it with a paddle, scrub with a brush or the mixture is agitated in a washing machine. Why is agitation necessary to get clean clothes?

Usually, agitation is necessary to obtain clean clothes such as agitation aid soap micelles to hold oil, grease or any other impurities to be removed. When the clothes are agitated or beaten, the...

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(a) What is buckminsterfullerene? How is it related to diamond and graphite? (b) Why is diamond used for making cutting tools but graphite is not? (c) Why is graphite used for making dry cell electrodes but diamond is not?

Solution: (a) Buckminsterfullerene is a carbon allotrope with 60 carbon atom clusters linked together to create spherical molecules. Nothing is left behind when it burns to generate carbon dioxide...

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Buckminsterfullerene is a spherical molecule in which 60 carbon atoms are arranged in interlocking hexagonal and pentagonal rings of carbon atoms. (a) How many hexagons of carbon atoms are present in one molecule of buckminsterfullerene? (b) How many pentagons of carbon atoms are present in one molecule of buckminsterfullerene?

Solution: (a) One buckminsterfullerene molecule contains 20 hexagonal carbon rings. (b) One buckminsterfullerene molecule contains 12 pentagonal carbon rings.

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An organic compound A on heating with concentrated H2 SO4 forms a compound B which on addition of one mole of hydrogen in presence of Ni forms a compound C. One mole of compound C on combustion forms two moles of CO2 and 3 moles of H2O. Identify the compounds A, B and C and write the chemical equations of the reactions involved.

Compound A – Ethanol (CH3CH2OH) Reaction Involved: CH3CH2OH → CH2-CH2+ H2O Compound B – Ethene (CH2= CH2) Reaction Involved: CH2=CH2 →C2H6 Compound C - Ethane (CH3 — CH3) Reaction...

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A compound C (molecular formula, C2H4O2 ) reacts with Na – metal to form a compound R and evolves a gas which burns with a pop sound. Compound C on treatment with an alcohol A in presence of an acid forms a sweet-smelling compound S (molecular formula, C3H6O2 ). On addition of NaOH to C, it also gives R and water. S on treatment with NaOH solution gives back R and A. Identify C, R, A, S and write down the reactions involved.

Identification: C - Ethanoic acid R - Sodium Ethanoate A - Ethanol S - Ester Reactions Involved: 2CH3COOH  +2 Na →2CH3COONa+H2 CH3COOH  +C2H5OH → CH3COOC2H5 + H20 CH3COOC2H5+NaoH...

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(a) What are hydrocarbons? Give examples. (b) Give the structural differences between saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons with two examples each. (c) What is a functional group? Give examples of four different functional groups.

Answers: (a) The Hydrocarbons are basically the compounds of Carbon and hydrogen such as Ethane and Methane. (b) The Hydrocarbons having single bond is known as saturated hydrocarbons such as Ethane...

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A salt X is formed and a gas is evolved when ethanoic acid reacts with sodium hydrogen carbonate. Name the salt X and the gas evolved. Describe an activity and draw the diagram of the apparatus to prove that the evolved gas is the one which you have named. Also, write a chemical equation of the reaction involved.

Identification: Salt X - Sodium Ethanoate Gas - Carbon-di-oxide. Reaction Involved: CH3COOH+NaHCO3 → CH3COONA+H2O+CO2 Activity Involved: Experiment set up. 2. In a test-tube and take spoon full of...

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A compound X is formed by the reaction of a carboxylic acid C2H4O2 and an alcohol in the presence of a few drops of H2SO4. The alcohol on oxidation with alkaline KMnO4 followed by acidification gives the same carboxylic acid as used in this reaction. Give the names and structures of (a) carboxylic acid, (b) alcohol and (c) the compound X. Also write the reaction.

(a) Ethanoic acid (CH3COOH) (b) Ethanol (CH3CH2OH) (c) Ethyl ethanoate (CH3COOCH2CH3 ) Reactions Involved: (a) (b) (c)

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Characterize a taxon. What is implied by ordered chain of command? Give a stream outline from the most reduced to the most elevated class for a plant and a creature. What befalls the quantity of people and number of shared characters as we go up the taxonomical chain of command?

solution: The gathering of life forms at any level is known as Taxon. This can be positioned as Species-sort family-request class-phylum/division-realm As we go from species to realm there is a...

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A plant animal categories shows a few morphological varieties because of an altitudinal angle. At the point when developed under comparable states of development, the morphological varieties vanish and every one of the variations have normal morphology. What are these variations called?

solution: These variations are known as the 'ecotypes'. Plants show changes in morphological components because of the altitudinal angle.

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