Class 12 Chemistry - Chapter Chemistry in Everyday Life NCERT Solutions | Why do we require artificial sweetening

Why do soaps not work in hard water?

Explain the following terms with suitable examples

(i) cationic detergents

(ii) anionic detergents and

(iii) non-ionic detergents.

What are food preservatives ?

Sleeping pills are recommended by doctors to the patients suffering from sleeplessness but it is not advisable to take its doses without consultation with the doctor, Why?

How do antiseptics differ from disinfectants ? Give one example of each. 

Why is use of aspartame limited to cold foods and drinks?

What are the main constituents of dettol?

With reference to which classification has the statement, ranitidine is an antacid been given?

Write the chemical equation for preparing sodium soap from glyceryl oleate and glyceryl palmitate. Structural formulae of these compounds are given below.

(i) (C₁₅H₃₁COO)₃ C₃H₅ - Glyceryl palmitate

(ii)(C₁₇H₃₃COO)₃ C₃H₅ - Glyceryl oleate

Name a substance which can be used as an antiseptic as well as disinfectant.

For the reaction R → P, the concentration of a reactant changes from 0.03 M to 0.02 M in 25 minutes. Calculate the average rate of reaction using units of time both in minutes and seconds.

Write the formulas for the following coordination compounds:

(i) Tetraamminediaquacobalt (III) chloride

(ii) Potassium tetracyanonickelate(II)

(iii) Tris(ethane-1,2-diamine) chromium(III) chloride

(iv) Amminebromidochloridonitrito-N-platinate(II)

(v) Dichloridobis(ethane-1,2-diamine)platinum(IV) nitrate

(vi) Iron(III) hexacyanoferrate(II)

(i) Write structures of different isomeric amines corresponding to the molecular formula, C4H11N

(ii) Write IUPAC names of all the isomers.

(iii) What type of isomerism is exhibited by different pairs of amines?

Why are solids rigid?

Write any two characteristics of Chemisorption.

Write the structures of the following compounds.

(i) α-Methoxypropionaldehyde

(ii) 3-Hydroxybutanal

(iii) 2-Hydroxycyclopentane carbaldehyde

(iv) 4-Oxopentanal

(v) Di-sec-butyl ketone

(vi) 4-Fluoroacetophenone

Which of the ores mentioned in Table 6.1 can be concentrated by magnetic separation method?

Why are pentahalides more covalent than trihalides?

Silver atom has completely filled d orbitals (4d10) in its ground state. How can you say that it is a transition element?

Glucose or sucrose are soluble in water but cyclohexane or benzene (simple six membered ring compounds) are insoluble in water. Explain.

Why do solids have a definite volume?

Define the term polymerisation.

How is O₃ estimated quantitatively?

Describe the preparation of potassium permanganate. How does the acidifiedpermanganate solution react with

(i) iron

(II) ions 

(ii) SO₂ and

(iii) oxalic acid?

Write the ionic equations for the reactions.

Give the oxidation state, d-orbital occupation and coordination number of the central metal ion in the following complexes:

(i) K₃[Co(C₂O₄)₃]

(ii) cis-[Cr(en)₂Cl₂]Cl

(iii) (NH₄)₂[CoF₄]

(iv) [Mn(H₂O)₆]SO₄

Compare the stability of +2 oxidation state for the elements of the first transition series.

Why is adsorption always exothermic?

Explain:   (i) Zone refining    (ii) Column chromatography.

Write the mechanism of the reaction of HI with methoxymethane.

Predict the major product of acid catalysed dehydration of

(i) 1-Methylcyclohexanol and

(ii) Butan-1-ol