CHEMISTRY

CHAPTER 2: IS MATTER AROUND US PURE?

ASSIGNMENT – 1
Q1: Is Sodium chloride or sugar a pure substance? If so, why?
Q2: Give the constituents of soda water and identify the solute and solvent.
Q3: Is brass a mixture or a compound? Comment.
Q4: Give one example each of the following:
(a) Solid – solid solution
(b) Gas – gas solution
(c) Solution in which solvent is a liquid but solute is a gas
(d) Homogenous mixtures
(e) Suspension
Q5: Identify solute and solvent in the following:
(a) 10% ethyl alcohol in water
(b) 75% ethanol in water
Q6: Which of the following will show tynndall effect and why?
Salt solution, milk, copper sulphate solution, starch solution and muddy
water.
Q7: What is the difference between (a) solutions and colloids (b) colloids and
suspensions.
Q8: Define the following:
(a) Saturated solution (b) super saturated solution (c) concentration of a
solution (d) Tyndall effect
Q9: Give one example of liquid in liquid colloidal solution. What is the name
given to such colloids?
Q10: What are aerosols, foam and gels? Give one example of each.
Q11: Name the process used to separate:
(a) Iron fillings and powdered carbon
(b) Mixture of chalk powder and water
(c) Cream from milk
(d) Common salt from sea water
(e) Water and alcohol
Q12: Give two methods of converting a saturated solution into an unsaturated
solution.
Q13: Give any two applications of the following: (a) Chromatography
(b) Centrifugation.
Q14: How can we obtain different gases from air? Explain.
Q15: With the help of a diagram explain how water is purified at city water
works?
Q16: Is air a mixture or a compound? Give reasons.
Q17: What is the difference between fog and smog?
Q18: How would you separate a mixture of common salt and sulphur without
using water?
Q19: Draw a neat and labelled diagram of the apparatus you would use to obtain
pure water from a salt solution.
Q20: Which technique is used in the following:
(a) Washing machine to squeeze out water from wet clothes
(b) To detect and identify traces of poison present in the stomach wash of
a person
Q21: What difference in the property of two miscible liquids that enables their
separation by fractional distillation?
Q22: What is fractional distillation? What is the use of fractionating column in
fractional distillation?
Q23: Explain with the help of a diagram how will you separate a mixture of
mustard oil and water?
Q24: How will you separate iron fillings, ammonium chloride and sand from their
mixture?
Q25: Describe the various steps involved in the separation common salt, sulphur
and sand.
Q26: Differentiate between the following:
(a) Physical and chemical changes
(b) Compound and a mixture
(c) Metals and non metals
(d) True solution, suspension and colloids
Q27: Name the following:
(a) A metal and a non metal liquid at room temperature
(b) A non metal which is a good conductor of electricity
(c) A metal that can be easily cut with a knife
(d) Two metalloids
(e) Two noble gases
(f) A non metal which is lustrous
(g) The first scientist who used the term element
Q28: Sodium metal is a pure substance and so is sodium chloride, inspite of the
fact that sodium chloride contains two different elements. Explain.
Q29: Two substances A and B combine to form another substance C. During the
combination, heat is evolved and C has properties different from those of
A and B. Identify C as an element, compound and mixture.
Q30: Burning of a candle involves both physical and chemical change. Give
reason.