Board: CBSE

Chapter : Acid, Bases and Salts

Subject: Chemistry
ASSIGNMENT Class: X

Question 1. Name one natural source of each of the following acids:

(a) Lactic acid
(b) Acetic acid
(c) Citric acid
(d) Oxalic acid

Question 2. Write the chemical formulae of the following chemicals:-

(a) Plaster of paris
(b) Gypsum
(c) Bleaching powder
(d) Slaked lime

Question 3. Which acid is present in an ants sting. Write its chemical formula. How
can the effect of ant sting be neutralised?

Question 4. Why is it wrong to treat a wasp sting with baking soda solution?

Question 5. (a) What will be the action of the following substances on litmus paper?
Moistened NH3 gas, Lemon juice, Carbonated soft drink, Crud, Soap
solution.

(b) Hold one moist and dry strip of blue litmus paper over dry HCl gas.
Which strip of litmus paper will turn red and why?

Question 6. Name the acid present in tomato, and tamarind.

Question 7. What do you think will the pH of soda water bottle increase or decrease
when it is left open?

Question 8. Why yellow spots of turmeric on clothes turn brown when they come in
contact with water and soda?

Question 9. What happens when nitric acid is added to egg shell?

Question 10. Solutions of an acid and a base in is two separate beakers and are not
labelled. The litmus paper is also not available in the laboratory. How will
you distinguish between the two?

Question 11. How would you distinguish between washing soda and baking powder by
heating?

Question 12. Salt A commonly used in bakery products, on heating it gets converted
into another salt B which itself is used for removal of hardness of water
and a gas C is evolved. The gas C when passed through lime water, turns
it milky. Identity A, B and C.

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 Question 13. Why do you think a farmer would add lime to the soil?

Question 14. What are strong and weak acids? Separate strong acids from weak acids
from the following list:
Hydrochloric acid, citric acid, acetic acid, nitric acid, formic acid, sulphuric
acid.

Question 15. Give any two application of pH.

Question 16. Name the products produced when an aqueous solution of NaCl is
electrolysed.

Question 17. In the following schematic diagram for the preparation of hydrogen gas as
shown in the figure 2.3, what would happen if following changes are
made?
Deliver tube
Stand
Burning of hydrogen
gas with a pop sound
Candle
Test tube
Hydrogen
Dilute sulphuric acid
gas
bubbles Soap bubble filled
Zinc granules with hydrogrm

soap solution

Fig. 2.3

(a) In place of size granules, same amount of zinc dust is taken in the test
tube
(b) Instead of dilute sulphuric acid, dilute hydrochloric acid is taken
(c) In place of zinc, copper turning are taken
(d) Sodium hydroxide is taken in place of dilute sulphuric acid and the tube
is heated

Question 18. Which compound is used in hospital for setting fractured bones? Write its
chemical name and formula. How is it prepared?

Question 19. Explain following activity with the help of a diagram:

(a) Heating of hydrated copper sulphate.
(b) Reacting sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate with dilute HCl and
test CO2 gas.

Question 20. When zinc metal is treated with a dilute solution of a strong acid, a gas is
evolved, which is utilised in the hydrogenation of oil.
(a) Name the gas evolved.
(b) Write the chemical equation of the reaction involved.
(c) Write a test to detect the gas formed.

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 Question 21. For making cake, if baking soda is used instead of baking powder,
(a) will it affect the taste of the cake and why?
(b) how can baking soda be converted into baking powder?
(c) what is the role of tartaric acid added to baking soda?

Question 22. A compound of sodium X is used in the kitchen to make pakoras crispy, It
also remove acidity in stomach:
(a) Identify the compound X, and write its chemical formula.
(b) What reaction takes place on heating it during cooking the food.

Question 23. (a) What is plaster of paris? Write the chemical formula of plaster of paris.
(b) State two uses plaster of paris.

Question 24. Give reasons to explain the following statement:

(a) Gypsum is used in the manufacture of cement.
(b) Tartaric acid is a component of baking powder used in making cakes.

Question 25. (a) Lime water turns milky when CO2 is passed through it.
(b) Acid should be added to water for dilution and not water of acid.
(c) Acids do not show acidic character in absence of water.

Question 26. What is neutralization reaction? Give two application of neutralization in

daily life.

Question 27. Why acid rain a considered harmful? Give reason.

Question 28. What is dead burnt plaster?

Question 29. Give the colour of pH paper of the following:

Solution Colour of pH Paper Name of Substance

Na4OH

Water

Hcl

Acetic Acid

Question 30. Identify the compound X on the basis of the reactions given below. Also,
write the name and chemical formulae of A, B and C.

+ Zn
A + H2(g)
Compound + HCL
X B + H2O
+ CH3COOH
C + H2O

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