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Inorganic Chemistry

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Which of the following compounds is used as a reagent in the Gabriel synthesis of amines?

  1. Potassium cyanide

  2. Potassium chloride

  3. Potassium cobaltinitrite

  4. Potassium dithionite


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Potassium phthalimide is a chemical compound of formula C8H4KNO2. If desired, it may be prepared by adding a hot solution of phthalimide to a solution of potassium hydroxide. This compound is a reagent used in the Gabriel synthesis of amines.

Which of the following is used in the process of silvering mirrors?

  1. Potassium nonahydridorhenate

  2. Potassium octachlorodimolybdate

  3. Potassium peroxymonosulphate

  4. Potassium sodium tartrate


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Potassium sodium tartrate is a colourless to blue-white salt crystallizing in the orthorhombic system. It has a specific gravity of about 1.79, a melting point of approximately 75 °C, and has a saline, cooling taste. It has been used medicinally as a laxative. It has also been used in the process of silvering mirrors.

A primary explosive requires relatively small amount of energy for initiation. Among the following which one is a primary explosive?

  1. Potassium propanoate

  2. Potassium picrate

  3. Potassium silicate

  4. Potassium pyrosulphate


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Potassium picrate, or potassium 2,4,6-trinitrophenolate, is an organic chemical, a picrate of potassium. It is a reddish yellow or green crystalline material. It is a primary explosive. Anhydrous potassium picrate forms orthorhombic crystals.

The potassium salt used in chemical actinometry is

  1. potassium ferricyanide

  2. potassium ferrioxalate

  3. potassium ferrocyanide

  4. potassium fluoride


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Potassium ferrioxalate is a chemical compound with the formula K3[Fe(C2O4)3], where iron is in the +3 oxidation state. It is an octahedral transition metal complex in which three bidentate oxalate ions are bound to an iron center. Crystals of the trihydrated form of the complex, K3[Fe(C2O4)3]·3H2O, are emerald green in colour. Potassium ferrioxalate is used in chemical actinometry.

Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin necessary for normal growth and development of the body. The potassium salt structurally related to vitamin C is

  1. potassium nitrate

  2. potassium perchlorate

  3. potassium erythorbate

  4. potassium dichromate


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Potassium erythorbate (C6H7KO6) is a food additive. Chemically, it is the potassium salt of erythorbic acid. As an antioxidant structurally related to vitamin C, it helps to improve flavour stability and prevents the formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines.

Senko hanabi is a traditional Japanese firework. Which among the following is an important intermediate in such other fireworks?

  1. Potassium hydride

  2. Potassium hydrosulphide

  3. Potassium hydroxide

  4. Potassium sulphide


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Potassium sulphide is an inorganic compound with the formula K2S. Potassium sulphides are formed when black powder is burned and are important intermediates in many pyrotechnic effects, such as senko hanabi and some glitter formulations.

Which of the following lithium compounds acts as an electrolyte of lithium batteries?

  1. Lithium tetrachloroaluminate

  2. Lithium tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate

  3. Lithium tetramethylpiperidide

  4. Lithium triethylborohydride


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Lithium tetrachloroaluminate is an inorganic compound, a tetrachloroaluminate of lithium, with the formula LiAlCl4. Solution of lithium tetrachloroaluminate in thionyl chloride is the liquid cathode and electrolyte of some lithium batteries, e.g. lithium-thionyl chloride cell.

Which of the following potassium salts is also termed as Mud soap?

  1. Potassium lauryl sulphate

  2. Potassium malate

  3. Potassium manganate

  4. Potassium metabisulphite


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Potassium lauryl sulphate (KC12H25SO4), is very much similar to sodium lauryl sulphate. Mud soaps are the terms often associated with this detergent. It has a better cleansing action indicated by the presence of potassium ion.

Among the following which one is used as a brazing flux for aluminium in automobile parts?

  1. Lithium borohydride

  2. Lithium bromide

  3. Lithium carbide

  4. Lithium chloride


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Lithium chloride is produced by treatment of lithium carbonate with hydrochloric acid. Lithium chloride is mainly used for the production of lithium metal by electrolysis of a LiCl/KCl melt at 600 °C. LiCl is also used as a brazing flux for aluminium in automobile parts. It is used as a desiccant for drying air streams.

Mood stabilizers are used to treat the symptoms of bipolar disorder. The compound of lithium used as a mood stabilizer is

  1. lithium citrate

  2. lithium niobate

  3. lithium molybdate

  4. lithium metaborate


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Lithium citrate (Li3C6H5O7) is a chemical compound of lithium and citrate that is used as a mood stabilizer in psychiatric treatment of manic states and bipolar disorder.

A pacemaker is a small device placed in the chest which helps to control abnormal heart rhythms.The lithium salt used in the batteries of artificial pacemakers is

  1. lithium nitride

  2. lithium nitrite

  3. lithium amide

  4. lithium iodide


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Lithium iodide, or LiI, is a compound of lithium and iodine. When exposed to air, it becomes yellow in colour, due to the oxidation of iodide to iodine. It is used as an electrolyte for high temperature batteries. It is also used for long life batteries as required, for example, by artificial pacemakers. The solid is used as a phosphor for neutron detection.

The lithium salt used to treat mental conditions is

  1. lithium borate

  2. lithium carbonate

  3. lithium chlorate

  4. lithium orotate


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Lithium orotate, is a salt of orotic acid and lithium. It is generally marketed as dietary supplement used in small doses to treat mental conditions including stress, bipolar disorder, alcoholism, ADHD, ADD, aggression, PTSD, Alzheimer's and to improve memory.

Which of the following lithium salts is used in commercial secondary batteries?

  1. Lithium 12-hydroxystearate

  2. Lithium aluminium hydride

  3. Lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide

  4. Lithium hexafluorophosphate


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Lithium hexafluorophosphate is an inorganic compound with the formula LiPF6. This white crystalline powder is used in commercial secondary batteries, an application that exploits its high solubility in nonpolar solvents. Specifically, solutions of lithium hexafluorophosphate in propylene carbonate with dimethoxyethane serves as an electrolyte in lithium batteries.

Which among the following strontium salts is used as a colourant in fireworks?

  1. Strontium aluminate

  2. Strontium bromate

  3. Strontium bromide

  4. Strontium carbonate


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Strontium carbonate (SrCO3) is the carbonate salt of strontium that has the appearance of a white or grey powder. It occurs in nature as the mineral strontianite.The most common use is as an inexpensive colorant in fireworks. Strontium and its salts emit a brilliant red color in flame.

Which among the following is a component of television picture tube glass ?

  1. Strontium iodide

  2. Strontium nitrate

  3. Strontium nitride

  4. Strontium oxide


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Strontium oxide or strontia, SrO, is formed when strontium reacts with oxygen. Burning strontium in air results in a mixture of strontium oxide and strontium nitride. About 8% by weight of television picture tube glass is strontium oxide, which has been the major use of strontium since 1970.

Which of the following acts as a corrosion inhibitor to prevent electrochemical corrosion at the joints of dissimilar metals?

  1. Barium chromate

  2. Barium ferrate

  3. Barium nitrate

  4. Barium oxalate


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Barium chromate is a fine light yellow powder with the formula BaCrO4. It is an oxidizing agent, and produces a green flame when heated, the result of barium ions. It is used as a corrosion inhibitor to prevent electrochemical corrosion at the joints of dissimilar metals.

The acantharea is a large amoebae found in marine water column. Which of the following strontium salts is a main constituent of their skeleton?

  1. Strontium peroxide

  2. Strontium ranelate

  3. Strontium sulphate

  4. Strontium sulphide


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Strontium sulphate (SrSO4) is the sulphate salt of strontium. It is a white crystalline powder and occurs in nature as the mineral celestine. Strontium sulphate is a polymeric material, isostructural with barium sulphate. Crystallized strontium sulphate is utilized by a small group of radiolarian protozoa, called the Acantharea, as a main constituent of their skeleton.

Flux in metallurgy is used to remove all impurities from ores.The barium salt used as a flux is

  1. barium acetate

  2. barium borate

  3. barium carbonate

  4. barium chlorate


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Barium carbonate (BaCO3), also known as witherite, is a chemical compound used in rat poison, bricks, ceramic glazes and cement. Witherite crystallises in the orthorhombic system. It is widely used in the ceramics industry as an ingredient in glazes. It acts as a flux, a matting and crystallising agent and combines with certain colouring oxides to produce unique colours not easily attainable by other means.

Among the following --------------------- is used as a thermoluminescent dosimeter crystal.

  1. strontium chloride

  2. strontium fluoride

  3. strontium boride

  4. strontium hydroxide


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Strontium fluoride, SrF2, is a stable brittle white crystalline solid. It is used as an optical material for a small range of special applications, for example, as an optical coating on lenses and also as a thermoluminescent dosimeter crystal.

Anisotropy is the property of being directionally dependent. Which among the following caesium salts is an anisotropic etchant of silicon?

  1. Caesium hydride

  2. Caesium hydroxide

  3. Caesium oxide

  4. Caesium cadmium bromide


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Caesium hydroxide (CsOH) is a chemical compound consisting of an atom of caesium and a hydroxide group (also known as hydroxyl). It is a powerful base. Due to its high reactivity, caesium hydroxide is extremely hygroscopic. It is an anisotropic etchant of silicon, exposing octahedral planes.

Infrared spectroscopy deals with the study of the interaction between infrared light & the matter. Which among the following is used in windows for infrared spectroscopy?

  1. Barium iodide

  2. Barium hydroxide

  3. Barium fluoride

  4. Barium oxide


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Barium fluoride (BaF2) is a chemical compound of barium and fluorine. It is transparent from the ultraviolet to the infrared, from 150-200 nm to 11-11.5 µm, and can be used as a material to make optical components such as lenses. It is used in windows for infrared spectroscopy, in particular in the field of fuel oil analysis.

Which of the following caesium salts is used in gravimetric analysis?

  1. Caesium nitrate

  2. Caesium chromate

  3. Caesium perchlorate

  4. Caesium sulphate


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Caesium perchlorate ( CsClO4 ) forms white hygroscopic crystals, which are soluble in water and ethanol. CsClO4 is the least soluble of the alkali metal perchlorates (followed by Rb, K, Li, and Na), a property which may be used for separatory purposes and even for gravimetric analysis.

A subwoofer is a loudspeaker designed to reproduce extremely low audio frequencies.The barium compound used in subwoofer magnets to provide power is

  1. barium azide

  2. barium bromide

  3. barium chloride

  4. barium ferrite


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Barium ferrite, BaFe2Oand related ferrite materials are components of magnetic stripe cards.The Fe3+ centers, with a high-spin d5 configuration, are ferromagnetically coupled. This area of technology is usually considered to be an application of the related fields of materials science and solid state chemistry. It is also used in subwoofer magnets to provide power.

Among the following -------------------------- is used in the manufacturing of paper.

  1. barium peroxide

  2. barium sulphide

  3. barium sulphite

  4. yttrium barium copper oxide


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Barium sulphite is the barium salt of sulphurous acid with the chemical formula BaSO3. It is a white powder which is used in paper manufacturing. Like other barium compounds, it is toxic.

DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the hereditary material in all the organisms. Which of the following compounds is used in isopycnic centrifugation for separating various types of DNA?

  1. Caesium iodide

  2. Caesium fluoride

  3. Caesium chloride

  4. Caesium bromide


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Caesium chloride is an inorganic compound with the formula CsCl. It is widely used in isopycnic centrifugation for separating various types of DNA. It is a reagent in analytical chemistry, where it is used to identify ions by the colour and morphology of the precipitate.

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