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Metals and Non-Metals

Description: Metals and non-metals (E)
Number of Questions: 20
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Which of the following is a biodegradable material?

  1. Tin

  2. Aluminium

  3. Wood

  4. Plastic


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Wood is degraded by other living organisms. Thus, wood is a biodegradable material.

Name the property by virtue of which a metal can be hammered into thin sheets.

  1. Ductility

  2. Malleability

  3. Sonority

  4. Conductivity


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

It is an important physical property of metals. For example, gold and silver are both malleable and ductile.

Heating elements of devices like electric heater and geyser are made of alloys because alloys have __________.

  1. quality of ductility and malleability

  2. high resistance and high melting point

  3. low resistance and low melting point

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Alloys are used because they have high melting point which ensures that the heating element does not melt upon heating continuously. The element chosen as heating element should be such that it has high resistance because of Joule's law of heating: Heat is directly proportional to resistance, i.e. more resistance more heat.

Which of the following options is an ore of uranium?

  1. Bauxite

  2. Dolomite

  3. Pitchblende

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Pitchblende is an ore of uranium.

Which of the following materials is not sonorous?

  1. Aluminium

  2. Gold

  3. Wood

  4. Iron


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Wood does not produce a ringing sound when struck with another material. So, it is not a sonorous material. Sonorous material produces a ringing sound when struck with another material.

What is the process of purifying impure metals called?

  1. Refining

  2. Roasting

  3. Regulating

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A

Where is phosphorus used?

  1. Petroleum industry

  2. Dye industry

  3. Match industry

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C

Which metal is used to make the filament of an electric bulb?

  1. Nichrome

  2. Tungsten

  3. Iron

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B

How many non-metals exist on Earth?

  1. 20

  2. 24

  3. 22

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C

Aluminium foil is used to make medicine wrappers because it is

  1. ductile

  2. malleable

  3. shiny

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Aluminium foil is used to make medicine wrappers because it is malleable.

The most conducting metal is

  1. iron

  2. silver

  3. gold

  4. platinum


Correct Option: B

The unwanted impurities like sand, rocky material, limestone, mica etc. present in an ore are called

  1. gauge

  2. gouts

  3. gangue

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C

Which of the following metals is used in fireworks?

  1. Zinc

  2. Lead

  3. Antimony

  4. Selenium


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

 Antimony is used in fireworks.

Food cans are coated with tin and not zinc because?

  1. Zinc has a higher melting point than tin

  2. Zinc is more reactive than tin

  3. Zinc is less reactive than tin

  4. None of these.


Correct Option: B

Which of the following non-metals is used in the hydrogenation of vegetable oils to make vegetable ghee?

  1. Oxygen

  2. Hydrogen

  3. Nitrogen

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Hydrogen is used in the hydrogenation of vegetable oils to make vegetable ghee. 

The metal present in photo films is

  1. phosphorous

  2. mercury

  3. platinum

  4. magnesium


Correct Option: A

Which of the following metals has low melting and boiling points?

  1. Gold

  2. Sodium

  3. Aluminium

  4. Potassium


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Sodium has low melting and boiling points.

Non–metals are generally non-lustrous, except for

  1. neon

  2. krypton

  3. iodine

  4. argon


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Iodine is the only non-metal which is lustrous.

Which of the following metals is used in a car battery?

  1. Zinc

  2. Lead

  3. Magnesium

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B

Which of the following is used as an electrode in a dry cell?

  1. Graphite

  2. Magnesium sulphate

  3. Sodium thiosulphate

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Graphite is a non-metal which conducts electricity. Because of this reason, a graphite is used in electrodes of a dry cell.

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