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1.
Shyam living in Shimla, was washing clothes in cold water. He found that the clothes were not getting clean. Sneha, his grandmother, suggested that he wash the clothes in warm water, Washing of clothes with soaps or detergents is easier in luke warm water than cold water.
Answer the following questions:
(i) Why is it easier to wash the clothes in luke warm water?
(ii) What values are associated with these information?
2.
Mamta's baby was suffering from fever. She consulted a doctor who prescribed, some medicines. She added boiled water to the medicine and then cooled water as per the instruction to the content of the bottle upto the mark. She shook the bottle, then gave a spoonful of the medicine to the baby
Answer the following questions:
(i) Why did she shake up the contents?
(ii) What is the name of process of agitation?
(iii) What is the particle range of solution obtained after shaking the medicine?
(iv) What is the value associated with selling medicine in this form?
3.
Surface chemistry deals with phenomenon that occurs at all the surface or interfaces. Many important phenomenon- corrosion electrode process, heterogeneous catalysis, dissociation, adsorption, crystallisation occur at the interfaces.
Answer the following questions:
(i) Why do we use charcoal, in gas masks, in coal mines?
(ii) How is animal charcoal, used in the decolourisation of sugar?
(iii) What is the use of silica gel which is given alongwith camera and other electronic equipments?
(iv) There is safety lamp in coal mines. What is its purpose?
4.
Shivam and Sudesh are two workers of Coal India Ltd. Ghato Phase-II. They go to their work with a mask and before going inside the coal mines, they wear the mask.
Answer the following questions:
(i) Why do they use the mask?
(ii) What is the process involved in working of mask?
(iii) What is the material used in manufacturing the mask?
(iv) What values do you obtain from use of mask in coal mines?
5.
On visit to your native village, you find that lot of smoke, dust and some other gases are coming out of the chimney of a recently set up factory near the village.
(i) As a chemistry student, what method you will suggest the factory owner to manage dust and smoke?
(ii) What is the basic principle involved in your suggestion?
(iii) What values are associated with your advice?
6.
Reetu is purely vegetarian but her husband Rohit likes non-vegetarian food. He regularly buys nonvegetarian goods (fish, meet, eggs etc.) and store these in fridge. The intermixing of odours creates problem for Reetu. Their daughter Rihana is a student of science. One day Rihana suggested her mother to put some small pieces of charcoal in the fridge as she thinks that this will solve the problem to some extent.
(i) Do you think by putting some small pieces of charcoal in the fridge will solve the problem of intermixing of odours. Give reason for your answer.
(ii) What are the values associated with Rihana's suggestion?
7.
Radha and Meera are fast friends. They both study in class XII.Radha is a student of science while Meera follows commerce stream. One day, when they were playing, Radha got hurt and started bleeding. Meera took her to house and applied some alum on the cut. The bleeding stopped immediately.
(i)Why bleeding stopped when some alum is applied on the cut?
(ii) What are the values associated with Meera's decision to take Radha to her house and apply alum on her cut?
8.
A house wife while working in the kitchen gots a cut on the finger. It started bleeding and become panicked. She immediately called her neighbour.She had kept ferric chloride in her house. She immediately applied it on the affected area and the bleeding stopped.
(i) What is the chemical formula of ferric chloride?
(ii) Why did bleeding stop on applying it on the affected finger?
(iii) What is the name of the phenomenon involved?
(iv) What do we learn from it? What is the value associated with this from the point of view of chemist?
9.
What are the applications of adsorption in chemical analysis?
10.
An emulsion is a colloidal dispersion in which both the dispersed phase and the dispersion medium are liquids. (The two liquids involved are otherwise immiscible).
11.
The volume of nitrogen gas vm (measured at S.T.P) required to cover a sample of silica gel with a mono - molecular layer is 129 cm3g-1 of gel. Calculate the surface area per gram of the gel if each nitrogen molecule occupies \(16.2\times { 10 }^{ -20 }{ m }^{ 2 }\).
12.
In an adsorption experiment, a graph between log (x/m) versus log P was found to be linear with a slope of 45o. The intercept on the log (x/m) axis was found to be 0.310. Calculate the amount of the gas adsorbed per gram of charcoal under a pressure of 0.5 atmosphere.
13.
20% of surface sites are occupied by N2 molecules. The density of surface sites is \(6.023\times { 10 }^{ 14 }\) cm-2 and total surface area is 1000 cm2 . The catalyst is heated to 300 K while N2 is completely disorbed into a pressure of 0.001 atm and volume 2.46 cm3. Find the active sites occupied by each N2 molecule.
14.
A one - litre vessel contained a gas at 27oC. 6 g of charcoal was introduced into it. The pressure of the gas fell down from 700 mm to 400 mm. Calculate the volume of the gas (at S.T.P) adsorbed per gram of charcoal. Density of charcoal sample used was 1.5 g cm-3 .
15.
1 g of charcoal adsorbs 100 ml of 0.5 M CH3COOH to form a monolayer, and thereby the molarity of CH3 COOH reduces to 0.49 M. Calculate the surface area of the charcoal adsorbed by each molecule of acetic. Surface area of charcoal = \(3.01\times { 10 }^{ 2 }{ m }^{ 2 }g\)
1.
(i) Soaps work due to the formation of micelles. But the formation of micelles takes place at a minimum temperature called 'Kraft temperature'. This temperature is reached in luke warm water.
(ii) Be humble to accept a scientific fact from a elder person.
2.
(i) Mamta shook the contents of the boule to bring the contents into the form of a sol. Absorbtion of medicine is easy in the colloidal form.
(ii) The process of agitation of molecules is known as peptisation.
(iii) The particle range of solution obtained is 1 to 1000 nm.
iv) When the medicine is sold in anhydrous form, it has a higher shelf-life and thus can be stored for a longer time. This is a good way of not wasting the available resources.
3.
(i) It absorbs poisonous gases to large extent and not oxygen which is used for breathing.
(ii) It absorbs the undesirable colours from aqueous solution of sugar, we get colourless sugar.
(iii) Silica gel absorbs water molecules on its surface which may spoil the equipment.
(iv) Whenever there is excess of carbon monoxide gas, the colour of flame becomes blue and coal mine workers are asked to come out because carbon monoxide gas may lead to death.
4.
(i) They use the mask for their safety from poisonous gases
(ii) Adsorption is the process involved in working of mask.
(iii) Gas mask is made up of activated charcoal.
(iv) Values obtained from the use of mask in coal, mines are knowledge of science and concern for health and safety.
5.
(i) Dust and smoke coming out of chimney can be controlled by installing cottrell smoke precipitator.
(ii) Cottrell precipitator consists of two metal discs charged to a high electrical potential. The charge on colloidal dust and carbon particles of smoke is neutralised and they get precipitated while free gases escape out of chimney.
(iii) The knowledge of cottrell precipitator and management of dust and carbon particles of smoke can help us to clean our environment and make it healthier. Eco-friendliness and self-awareness are values associated with it.
6.
(i) Yes, putting some small pieces of charcoal in the fridge can solve the problem of intermixing of odours to some extent. This is because charcoal is a good adsorbent of odours or vapours. Further breaking a big lump of charcoal into small pieces will increase the surface area of adsorbent, more is the extent of adsorption.
(ii) Values associated with Rihana's suggestion are:
(i) Love for her parents
(ii) Keen observation
(iii) Use of chemistry in daily life
(iv) A will to experiment and explore
(v) Presence of mind.
7.
(i) Blood is a colloidal solution of albuminoid substance. The styptic action (blood stopping action) of alum is due to coagulation of blood forming a clot which stops further bleeding.
(ii) Values associated with Meera's decision are:
(a) Friendship
(b) Keen observation
(c) Applying knowledge of chemistry to daily life
(d) Responsibility
(e) Love and care.
8.
(i) Chemical formula of ferric chloride is FeCI3.
(ii) Fe3+ ions of FeCl3 neutralize the charge on the colloidal particles of blood. This leads to coagulation of blood. Bleeding therefore, stopped.
(iii) This phenomenon is known as coagulation or flocculation.
(iv) All house wives must keep small bag or kit in their kitchen. It must have ferric chloride kept in small bottle or potash alum, burnol and bandages etc. Minor accidents are very common in kitchen. The kit can be very helpful to deal with emergency skill of applying knowledge, helping others, kindness, etc are the values associated with it.
9.
(i) In TLC
(ii) As adsorption incicators
(iii) In separation of inert gases.
10.
Method of preparation. An emulsion is prepared by shaking strongly the mixture of the two liquids or by passing the mixture through a colloid mill, called the homogenizer. The emulsions thus prepared from the pure liquids are usually not stable and the two liquids separate out on standing. To get a stable emulsion, small quantities of certain other substances are added during preparation. The substances thus added (tJ stabilize the emulsions are called emulsifiers or emulsifying agents. The substances commonly used as emulsifying agents are soaps of various kinds, long chain sulphonic acids or lyophilic colloids (proteins, gum, agar etc.).
Role of emulsifier. The role of emulsifier can be explained taking the example of soap as an emulsifier. Soaps are sodium or potassium salts of higher fatty acids, e.g., sodium palmitate (C15H31COONa), sodium stearate (C17H35COONa), etc. A molecule of soap consists of two parts, the hydrocarbon part (C15H31 -, C17H35 - , etc.) which is soluble in oil and the polar group (COO-Na+) which is soluble in water
R COO-Na+
Hydrophobic part Hydrophilic part
(Soluble in oil) (Soluble in water)
Thus, if a drop of oil is surrounded by soap solution, the R - part of the soap remains in the oil and the COO-Na+ part remains in water as shown in Fig. 5.31. Thus, soap molecules are concentrated over the surface of the drop of oil. As a result, the interracial tension between oil and water decreases and hence they are intermixed into each other to form the emulsion.Thus, micelles are formed Some other commonly used stabilizing agents are proteins, gums and agar
Types of Emulsions. If the term "oil" is used for any liquid which is immicible with water and is capable of forming an emulsion with water, then the various types of emulsions may be classified into two types (fig. 5.32). These are:
(i) Emulsion of oil-in-water (o/w) in which oil is the dispersed phase and water is the dispersion medium.
For example, milk is an emulsion of liquid fat dispersed
in water. Another well known example is that of vanishing cream
(ii)Emulsion of water-in-oil (w/o) in which water is the dispersed phase and oil is the dispersion medium.For example, cod liver oil is an emusion of water in oil, i.e., water is the dispersed phase and oil is the dispersion medium. Two other common examples of this type are butter and cold cream.
Evidently, the type of emulsion depends upon the relative amounts of the two liquids. If water is in excess, it is oil-in-water emulsion.JIf oil is in excess, it is water-in-oil emulsion. The type of emulsion formed also depends upon the nature of the emulsifying agent. For example, the presence of soluble soaps as the emulsifying agents generally favours the formation of emulsions of oil-in-water whereas the presence of insoluble soaps (containing non-alkali metal atoms) favours the formation of emulsions of water-in-oil.Some very commonly used emulsifying agents for o/w emulsions are : proteins, gums, natural and synthetic soaps whereas for w/o emulsions are: heavy metal salts of fatty acids, long chain alcohols, lamp black, etc
To test the type of emulsion. The type to which the given emulsion belongs can be tested experimentally by anyone of the following methods:
(i) Microscopic method. To a small amount of the given emulsion, a few drops of water are added. The water will mix completely if the emulsion is oil-in-water type. Likewise, for the water-in-oil emulsion, the miscibility with a few drops of oil can be tested. The miscibility can be seen under a microscope.
(ii) Conductance method. This method is based upon adding a small amount of an electrolyte to the emulsion. If the conductance increases, the emulsion is oil-in-water type and if there is no significant change, it is water-in-oil type.
(iii) Dye method. A small amount of an oil-soluble dye is added to the emulsion. If it is water-in-oil type, it becomes deeply coloured, otherwise it remains colourless.
11.
Surface area per gram of gel = 561.8 m2.
12.
At P = 0.5 atm, \(\frac { x }{ m } kP1/n\ =\ 2\times { (0.5) }^{ 1 }=1.0\)
13.
\(\frac { No.of\quad sites\quad occupied }{ No.of\quad { N }_{ 2 }\quad molecules } =\frac { 1.2046\times { 10 }^{ 17 } }{ 6.023\times { 10 }^{ 16 } } =2\)
14.
V2 = 59.6 cm3
15.
Surface area of charcoal adsobed by each molecule = \(\frac { 3.01\times { 10 }^{ 2 }{ m }^{ 2 } }{ 6.02\times { 10 }^{ 20 } } =5\times { 10 }^{ -19 }{ m }^{ 2 }\)
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