CHEMICAL REACTION & EQUATION

1-mark Questions/ Answers

1. What happens when magnesium ribbon burns in air?
Ans. When magnesium ribbon burns in air, it combines with the oxygen to form
magnesium oxide.
2Mg(s) + O2(g)  2MgO(s)
2. Name the gas evolved when zinc reacts with dil. HCl.
Ans. Hydrogen gas is evolved.
3. What is a chemical equation?
Ans. A chemical equation is a symbolic notation that uses formulae instead of
words to represent a chemical equation.
4. On what chemical law, balancing of chemical equation is based?
Ans. Balancing of a chemical equation is based on the law of conservation of
mass.

5. Represent decomposition of ferrous sulphate with the help of balanced

chemical equation.
Ans. 2FeSO4(s)  Fe2O3(s) + SO2(g) + SO3(g)
6. When carbon dioxide is passed through lime water, it turns milky, why?
Ans. Lime water (calcium hydroxide) combines with carbon dioxide to form a
suspension of calcium carbonate which makes lime water milky.
Ca(OH)2 + CO2 CaCO3 + H2O
7. A zinc rod is left for nearly 20 minutes in a copper sulphate solution. What
change would you observe in zinc rod?
Ans. Zinc rod will change into zinc sulphate.
8. What type of reaction is this:
Na2SO4 + BaCl2  BaSO4 + 2NaCl
Ans. It is a double displacement reaction.
9. Identify the compound oxidized in the following reaction.
H2S (g) + Cl2  S(s) + 2HCl (g)
Ans. H2S is oxidized.
10. What is rust? Ans. Rust is mainly hydrated iron (III) oxide, Fe2O3.xH2O.
11. How does the food become rancid?
Ans. Food becomes rancid when fat and oils present in the food are oxidized.
2-marks Questions/ Answers
Q.1. An iron knife kept dipped in a blue copper sulphate solution turns the blue
solution light green. Why?
Ans. As we know iron is more reactive than copper. So, it displaces Cu from
CuSO4 solution and forms ferrous sulphate which is of Light Green Colour.
CuSO4 (aq) + Fe (s) → FeSO4(aq) + Cu(s)
Blue colour light green colour
Q.2. A copper coin is kept in a solution of silver nitrate for some time. What
will happen to the coin and the colour of the solution?
Ans. We know that copper is more reactive than silver, so it will displace silver
from its salt solution:
Cu(s) + 2AgNO3(aq) → Cu(NO3)2(aq) + 2Ag(s)
So the solution will turn blue due to the formation of copper nitrate.
Q.3. What do you understand by precipitation reaction? Explain with suitable
examples.
Ans. Precipitate. When two reactants react and product formed remains
insoluble and settles as a solid it is called a precipitate. Such reactions in which
precipitate is formed are called precipitation reactions. For example,(i) when
aqueous solution of sodium sulphate is mixed with the aqueous solution or
barium chloride, barium sulphate comes in the form of white precipitate
Na2SO4(aq) + BaCl2(aq) → BaSO4(↓) + 2NaCl(aq)
 (ii) When aqueous solution of sodium chloride is mixed with the aqueous
solution of silver nitrate, silver chloride comes in the form of white precipitate.
Q.4. What is lime-water test for the detection of carbon dioxide?
Ans. When carbon dioxide gas is passed through lime water ,it turns milky due
to the formation of milky suspension (precipitate) of calcium carbonate. Carbon
dioxide is produced by the action of dilute HCl on sodium carbonate.
Na2CO3(s) + 2HCl(aq) → 2NaCl + H2O(l) +
CO2
Carbon dioxide gas produced in this reaction is passed through lime water that
changes to milky colour due to the formation of calcium carbonate.
Ca(OH)2(aq) + CO2(g) → Caco3 + CO2(g)
3 Marks Questions/ Answers
Q.5. What is corrosion? State the conditions necessary for rusting of iron. How
rusting is harmful?
Ans: Corrosion. The process of eating away of the metal by the action of
atmospheric reagents changing the metal into its compound is called corrosion.
Rusting of Iron. When iron and iron objects are exposed to atmosphere, they are
attacked by air and moisture (water) of the atmosphere and a brown and orange
coloured layer is formed on the surface. It is called rust which is mainly
hydrated iron (iii) oxide Fe2O3.xH2O.
Harmful Effect of Rusting. Hydrated iron (iii) oxide is brittle substance and
moves away from the surface thus the object is damaged. The objects get holes,
cavities and rough surface.
Conditions necessary for rusting :
(i) Open surfaces of the metal. (ii) Presence of air (Oxygen). (iii) Presence of
moisture (water).
Q.6. What is rancidity? Write the common method to prevent it.
Ans. When food item are kept unprotected for some time, they give some
unpleasant smell and taste and become rancid. This process is called rancidity.
Actually, the micro organisms oxidise the fat and oils present in them. So
oxidation of food items need to be prevented to protect them.
Common methods to Prevent Rancidity of Food item:
(i) Keeping the food at low temperature (ii) Keeping food item in air
tight containers
(iii) By filling nitrogen in the food storage bags.
5 Marks Questions/ Answers
1. a. Why cannot a chemical change be normally reversed?
b. why is it always essential to balance a chemical equation?
c. what happens when CO2 gas is passed through lime water and why does it
disappear on passing excess CO2?
d. Can rusting of iron takes place in distilled water?
Ans: a. In a chemical change some bonds are broken and some bonds are
formed. The products are quite different from the reactants. Therefore it
normally can’t be reversed.
b. A chemical equation has to be balanced to satisfy the law of conservation of
mass.
c. On passing CO2 gas through lime water, it turns milky due to formation of
insoluble calcium carbonate which dissolves on passing excess CO2 due to
formation of soluble calcium bicarbonate.
Ca(OH)2 + CO2(g) --------------→ CaCO3(s) + H2O(l)
CaCO3(s) + H2O(l) + CO2 (g) ---------------→ Ca(HCO3)2(soluble)
d. No, rusting of iron cannot take place in distilled water because it neither
contains dissolved oxygen nor CO2 both are essential for rusting of iron.
Hots Questions
Q 1 . The marble statues often slowly get corroded when kept in open for a long
time .Assign a suitable explanation
Ans-SO2,NO2 gases are released into the atmosphere from various sources.
These dissolve in rain water to give acid which corrodes marble statues
2SO2+O2 --------------→ 2SO3
H2O+SO3 --------------→ H2SO4
2NO2+H2O 2HNO3 CaCO3+H2SO4--------------→ CaSO4 +H2O+CO2
CaCO3+2HNO3 --------------→Ca(NO3)2+H2O+CO2
Q 2. You are given the following materials
(1) marble chips (2) dilute hydrochloric acid (3) Zinc granules, identify the type
of reaction when marble chips and Zinc granules are added separately to acid
taken in two test tubes
Ans- (i) marble chips react with dilute hydrochloric acid to form calcium
chloride and carbon dioxide .it is a double displacement reaction
CaCO3 + 2HCl → CaCl2 + H2O + CO2
(ii)Zinc granules react with dilute hydrochloric acid to give hydrogen gas. it is a
displacement reaction
Zn(s) + 2HCl → ZnCl2 (aq) + H2(g)
Q3. The gases hydrogen & chlorine do not react with each other even if kept
together for a long time . However , in the presence of sunlight , they readily
combine . What does actually happen ?
Ans- In Chemical reactions , energy is needed to break the bonds present in the
reacting molecules so that they may combine to form the products . In this
reaction , sunlight is the source of energy in the form of photons . The energy
made available by sunlight helps in breaking the bonds & this leads to chemical
reaction between hydrogen & chlorine.
H2 (g) + Cl2(g) sunlight→ 2HCl (g)
Q 4. A, B & C are three elements which undergo chemical reactions in the
following way
1. A2O3 + 2B  B2O3 + 2A
2. 3CSO4 + 2B  B2(SO4)3 + 3C 3. 3CO+ 2A  A2O3 +3C
Answer the following
(A) Which element is most reactive? (B) Which element is least reactive?
Ans: a) The most reactive element is ‘B’. It has displaced both ‘A’ and ‘c’ from
their compounds.
b) The least reactive element is ‘C’ as it has been displaced by both ‘A’ and ‘B’
.
Q. A water insoluble substance ‗X‘ on reacting with dilute H2SO4 released a
colourless and odourless gas accompanied by brisk effervescence. When the gas
was passed through water , the solution obtained turn blue litmus red . On
bubbling the gas through lime water , it initially became milky and the milkiness
disappeared when the gas was passed in excess . Identify the substance ‗X‘ and
write the chemical equations of the reaction involved
ANS: the water insoluble substance ‘X’ is most probably metal carbonate
( CaCO3 ). The chemical reaction that involved are given below
CaCO= (s) + H2SO4 (aq) →CaSO4 ( aq) + H2O (aq) + CO2 (g)
Ca(OH)2 (s) + CO2 (g) → CaCO3 (s) ( milky) + H2O (l)
CaCO3 (s) + CO2 (g) + H2O (aq) →Ca(HCO3)2 ( milkiness)
Extra score questions:
Q 1. If you collect silver coins and copper coins. After some day a black
coating on silver coins and a green coating on copper coins. Which chemical
phenomenon is responsible for these coatings? Write the chemical name of
black and green coatings
Ans: Corrosion is responsible for this coating. Black coating is due to formation
of Ag2S and green coating is due to formation of CuCO3.Cu(OH)2
Q.2. An aqueous solution of metal nitrate P reacts with sodium bromide solution
to form yellow ppt of compound Q which is used in photography. Q on
exposure to sunlight undergoes decomposition reaction to form metal present in
P along with reddish brown gas. Identify P&Q . Write the chemical reaction &
type of chemical reaction.
Ans: P = Ag NO3 , Q = AgBr 2AgBr (s)  2Ag(s) + Br2(g)
Photochemical decomposition
Q.3. A substance X used for coating iron articles is added to a blue solution of a
reddish brown metal Y, the color of the solution gets discharged Identify X and
Y & also the type of reaction.
Ans. 6 X= Fe, Y = Cu, Displacement reaction.
Q.4. A student burnt a metal A found in the form of ribbon. The ribbon burnt
with a dazzling flame & a white powder B is formed which is basic in nature.
Identify A &B. Write the balanced chemical equation.
Ans.11 X = Mg, Y = MgO, Mg + O2  2MgO
Q.5. why magnesium ribbon cleaned before burning?
Ans: The magnesium ribbon is always found with a white layer of MgO due
attack of moist air. So, magnesium ribbon cleaned before burning.
Q.6. During electrolysis of water gas collected in one test tube is double than
other why?
Ans: On electrolysis water decompose into hydrogen and oxygen in ratio 2:1 by
volume so, H2 gas collected in one test tube is double than O2