CHEMISTRY CHAPTER 2:

(EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN CHEMISTRY)

Short Questions:
1. Define analytical chemistry.
2. Define qualitative and quantitative analysis.
3. Name the various experimental techniques used for the purification of the substances.
4. In solvent extraction technique, repeated extractions using small portions of solvent are more
efficient than using a single extraction but with larger volume of solvent. Comment.
5. Why concentrated KMnO4 and HCl solutions can’t be filtered by Gooch crucible?
6. What is difference between Gooch crucible and Sintered glass crucible?
7. Write the names of major steps of crystallization.
8. Desiccator is the safest method of drying the crystals. Explain.
9. Why there is a need to crystallize the crude product?
10. How crystallized substances are dried?
11. How crystals are dried by safest and reliable method?
12. Write four properties of a good solvent.
13. Write the names of eight solvents used for the crystallization.
14. Define sublimation and partition law.
15. Give the importance of sublimation.
16. What type of substances can be purified by sublimation?
17. Define Sublimand and sublimate.
18. What is solvent extraction?
19. Define Rf value. Give its unit.
20. Give two applications of paper chromatography.
21. How does the rate of filtration increase by using fluted filter paper?
22. Define chromatography. Give its two uses.
23. Differentiate between partition and adsorption chromatography.
24. Write main uses of chromatography.