Chemical Changes / Name the following

  1. A bluish-green compound on heating leaves a black residue and evolves a gas that turns lime water milky – Copper Carbonate

  1. A red compound undergoes thermal decomposition yielding a yellow residue and oxygen – Red Lead

  2. Two colourless gases which when mixed form a coloured gas – Nitric Oxide, Oxygen

  3. A white crystalline salt decrepitates on heating liberating a reddish brown gas – Lead Nitrate

  4. Orange crystals which decomposes exothermically and forms a green fluffy residue – Ammonium Dichromate

  5. A metal which reacts reversibly with steam – Iron

  6. A white salt on heating gives a residue which is yellow when hot, white when cold and a colourless gas which turns lime water milky – Zinc Carbonate

  7. A white salt on heating gives a residue which is yellow when hot and white when cold and a reddish brown gas – Zinc Nitrate

  8. A nitrate which when heated leaves no residue – Ammonium Nitrate

  9. A white crystalline compound melts when heated and evolves a colourless gas which relights a glowing splinter – Sodium Nitrate or Potassium Nitrate

  10. A metal which reacts with water to form a turbid solution – Calcium

  11. A non-metal which reduces water to hydrogen – Carbon

  12. An oxide that dissolves in water to form a solution that turns blue litmus paper red – Acidic Oxide

  13. A metal that reacts violently with cold water – Potassium or Sodium

  14. Blue crystalline salt that becomes white on heating – Blue Vitriol

  15. A metallic nitrate that when heated does not produce a coloured gas – Sodium or Potassium Nitrate

  16. A carbonate on heating evolves two gases – Silver Carbonate

  17. A carbonate that does not undergo thermal decomposition – Sodium Carbonate

  18. A metal oxide that when heated liberates oxygen along with a gaseous product which condenses as a liquid – Mercuric Oxide

  19. A red oxide that forms two products on heating – a solid product and a gaseous product. -- Trilead Tetroxide ( Red Lead )

  20. A nitrogenous compound that evolves nitrogen on heating – Ammonium Dichromate

  21. A nitrate on heating gives a metal as one of the products – Silver Nitrate

  22. A black compound formed when a bluish green nitrate is heated – Copper Oxide

  23. A nitrate that does not liberate oxygen on heating – Ammonium Nitrate

  24. A metal that is above hydrogen in the activity series but does not displace hydrogen from water – Lead

  25. The gaseous mixture formed when steam is passed over heated coke – Water Gas

  26. The compound responsible for the milkyness of clear lime water when CO2 is passed through it – Calcium Carbonate

  27. A gas that puts off a burning splinter with a pop-sound – Hydrogen

  28. A mixed acid anhydride – Nitrogen Dioxide

  29. The other name of Nitric Anhydride – Dinitrogen Pentoxide

  30. The anhydride of sulphurous acid – Sulphur Dioxide

  31. The anhydride of phosphoric acid – Phosphorus Pentoxide

  32. Metallic oxide that reacts with acid as well as alkali – Zinc Oxide or Aluminium Oxide

  33. Two metals that liberate hydrogen gas with dilute acid as well as alkali – Zinc / Aluminium

  34. Two metals that react with 1%, cold nitric acid to give hydrogen gas – Manganese or Magnesium

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