Which of the following is not true about the ionic solids?
(A) Bigger ions form the close packed structure.
(B) Smaller ions occupy either the tetrahedral or the octahedral voids depending upon their size.
(C) Occupation of all the voids is not necessary.
(D) The fraction of octahedral or tetrahedral voids occupied depends upon the radii of the ions occupying the voids.
(A) Bigger ions form the close packed structure.
(B) Smaller ions occupy either the tetrahedral or the octahedral voids depending upon their size.
(C) Occupation of all the voids is not necessary.
(D) The fraction of octahedral or tetrahedral voids occupied depends upon the radii of the ions occupying the voids.
(B) Smaller ions occupy either the tetrahedral or the octahedral voids depending upon their size.
Which of the following statements is not true about amorphous solids?
(A) On heating they may become crystalline at certain temperature.
(B) They may become crystalline on keeping for long time.
(C) Amorphous solids can be moulded by heating.
(D) They are anisotropic in nature.
Which of the following statements is not true about the hexagonal close packing?
(A) The coordination number is 12.
(B) It has 74% packing efficiency.
(C) Tetrahedral voids of the second layer are covered by the spheres of the third layer.
(D) In this arrangement spheres of the fourth layer are exactly aligned with those of the first layer.
Which of the following is true about the value of refractive index of quartz glass?
(A) Same in all directions
(B) Different in different directions
(C) Cannot be measured
(D) Always zero
Which of the following conditions favours the existence of a substance in the solid state?
(A) High temperature
(B) Low temperature
(C) High thermal energy
(D) Weak cohesive forces
Which of the following Defects is also known as dislocation defect?
(A) Frenkel defect
(B) Schottky defect
(C) Non-stoichiometric defect
(D) Simple interstitial defect
Solid A is very hard electrical insulator in solid as well as in molten state and melts at an extremely high temperature. What type of solid is it?
(A) Ionic solid
(B) Molecular solid
(C) Covalent solid
(D) Metallic solid
Interstitial compounds are formed when small atoms are dropped under the curved lattice of metals. Which of the following is not the characteristics property of interstitial compounds?
(A) They have high melting points in to pure metals
(B) They are very hard
(C) They retain metallic Conductivity
(D) They are chemically very reactive
The reason for double helical structure of DNA is operation of-
(a) electrostatic attractions
(b) dipole-dipole interaction
(c) van der Waal’s forces
(d) hydrogen bonding
RNA and DNA are chiral molecules. Their chirality is due to :
(a) Chiral bases
(b) Chiral phosphate ester units
(c) D-sugar component
(d) L-sugar component.
Which stoichiometric defect does not change the density of the crystal?
(A) Frenkel defect
(B) Schottky defect
(C) Interstitial defect
(D) F-centres
The osmotic pressure of a solution is directly proportional to
(a) the molecular concentration of the solute.
(b) the absolute temperature at a given concentration.
(c) the lowering of vapour pressure.
(d) all the above.
Which cell will measure standard electrode potential of copper electrode?
a. Pt (s) | H₂ (g, 0.1 bar) | H⁺ (aq., 1 M)
Aryl halides can not be prepared by the reaction of arylalcohols with \(PCl_3\), \(PCl_5\) or \(SOCl_2\) because :
(a) phenols are highly stable compounds.
(b) carbon-oxygen bond in phenols has a partial doublebond character.
(c) carbon-oxygen bond is highly polar
(d) all of these
Although Zirconium belongs to 4d transition series and Hafnium to 5d transition series even then they show similar physical and chemical properties because
(a) both belong to d-block.
(b) both have same number of electrons.
(c) both have similar atomic radius.
(d) both belong to the same group of the periodic table.