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Chem Metallurgy Questions

This document contains 20 questions about chem metallurgy concepts including metals, alloys, ores, extraction processes and reactions. It asks about the metals used in batteries, galvanization, and lighting applications. It also asks about extraction processes for aluminum, iron and zinc from their ores as well as properties of metals versus non-metals.

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Chem Metallurgy Questions

This document contains 20 questions about chem metallurgy concepts including metals, alloys, ores, extraction processes and reactions. It asks about the metals used in batteries, galvanization, and lighting applications. It also asks about extraction processes for aluminum, iron and zinc from their ores as well as properties of metals versus non-metals.

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Chem Metallurgy Questions

Q1. Name the different metals for the following uses:

1. In accumulators of car batteries


2. For galvanizing iron
3. As silver paper
4. In a torch cell
5. In flashlight photography
6. In vapour lamps

Q2. Name the metal in each case, which has the following descriptions:

1. The metal alloyed with zinc to form brass.


2. Two elements, whose hydroxides are easily soluble in water and form alkaline
solutions.
3. One metal, which forms more than one type of positive ions.
4. One ion responsible for blue color of an aqueous solution of copper sulphate.
5. The elements added to iron to form stainless steel.

Q3. Give the names of non-metals that exhibit the following properties:

1. A non-metal which is the hardest naturally occurring substance.


2. Two non-metals whose oxides are neutral towards litmus.
3. A non-metal which is essential for organic compounds.
4. A non-metal which is essential for respiration.
5. A non-metal which is the source of energy in the sun and stars.
6. A non-metal used for curing skin diseases.

Section - 2

Q4. What will happen, if a strip of copper is kept immersed in the solution of
silver nitrate?

Q5. Why is cryolite added to alumina in the extraction of aluminium? What is the
molecular formula of cryolite?

Q6. Why extraction of aluminium was difficult?

Q7. Differentiate between:

1. Slag and Flux


2. Calcination and Roasting

Q8. Compare the properties of a typical metal and a non-metal on the basis of the
following:
 Electronic configuration
 Nature of the oxides
 Oxidizing or reducing action
 Conductivity of heat and electricity

Q9. What is the difference between a mineral and an ore?

Q10. Name two ores of iron.

 Name three raw materials used in the extraction of iron.


 Write equations that occur in the ‘Blast Furnace’.
 What are the main constituents of steel?
 What is tempering of steel?

Q11. Arrange the metal oxides given below according to the activity series with
the oxide which is most difficult to reduce placed first.

 Aluminium oxide, copper oxide, iron (III) oxide, magnesium oxide.


 Iron (III) oxide is the obtained in the blast furnace.
 What is the name of the iron ore which is largely composed of iron (III) oxide?

Q12. Name from the of substances given below, the substances which you would
use to prepare each of the following salts, named in parts (i) to (iv). The
substances are:

Copper, Lead, sodium, Zinc, Copper oxide, lead carbonate, sodium carbonate
solution, Duilute hydrochloric acid, Dilute nitric acid and Dilute sulphuric acid.

 Zinc sulphate
 Sodium sulphate
 Copper sulphate
 Lead sulphate

Q13. Why is sodium not found native in nature?

“Aluminium cannot be extracted by reduction of its ores by carbon.” Explain briefly.

Three different forms of iron are given as:

 Cast iron
 Wrought iron
 Steel

State against each article listed below, which form of iron it is made from:

Are made from Reasons for the choice


 Nails ( ) _______________________
 Car wheel springs ( ) _______________________
 House drain pipes ( ) _______________________
 Safety razor blades ( ) _______________________

Q14. The equation :Fe2 O3+3CO→2Fe+3CO2, represents the changing of iron ore
into iron..

 What compound has been oxidized?


 What compound has been reduced?
 Explain giving chemical equations, how carbon monoxide is produced in a blast
furnace?

The gases below have symbols A, B, C, D and E. Identify the gases by stating
their names from the list:

SO2,CO,H2 S,NH3and H2.

 A gas A obtained on adding dil. H2 SO4to iron (II) sulphide.


 A gas B obtained by boiling water with a nitride of a trivalent metal.
 The gas C liberated when concentrated H2SO4reacts with formic acid.
 A neutral gas D obtained when manganese reacts with very dilute HNO 3.
 A gas E obtained on roasting zinc blende at high temperature.

Given two reasons for aluminium, being pregerred to copper for the
manufacturing of cooking utensil.

Q15. In industry certain metals are extracted from their oxides by heating with
carbon in the form of coke. Give the name of one such metal.

What are the ions present in:

1. Brine solution
2. Molten sodium chloride?
3. Zincite is the ore of zinc. Name two other ores of zinc used in its extraction.

Q16. Given equation and indicate very briefly the procedure you will dopt to
prepare crystals of zinc sulphate from zinc filings.

1. Zinc sulphate is called a ‘salt’ sulphur dioxide an ‘acidic oxide’ and lead
monoxide a ‘basic oxide’. What is meant by these terms?
2. Name three classes of substances that react with an acid to form salts. Write
equations acids. Give ionic equations for each reaction.

Q17. What is meant by ‘ore’ and ‘slag?


 Name two metals that occur partly in native or free state.
 Name the processes involved in concentration of ore in metallurgy.

Q18. Give the common names and formulae of three ores for each from which
aluminum, iron and zinc are extracted.

 What is a lone pair of electrons?


 Draw an electron dot diagram of a hydronium ion and label the lone pair of
electrons.
 Name a neutral covalent molecule which contains one lone pair of electrons.
 What are the difficulties faced in the extraction of aluminium by electrolytic
extraction of aluminium by electrolytic reduction of fused alumina? State two
ways how these difficulties are resolved.
 Calculate the % of sodium in sodium aluminium fluoride correct to the (Na 3 AIF6 )
nearest whole number (F=19, NA=23, A1=27).

Q19. Iron sheets are often given a thin coating of zinc metal. What is the process
called and why is it done?

Q20. Name an alloy of a metal with a non-metal. Can we get alloys between

 a metal and another metal


 a metal and another non-metal?

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