CHAPTER 1
CHEMICAL EQUATIONS & REACTIONS
PYQS
1. A reddish brown coloured metal, used in electrical wires, when
powdered and heated strongly in an open china dish its colour turns
blacks. When hydrogen gas is passed over this black substance, it
regains its original colour. Based on above information answer the
following question. (i) Name the metal and the black coloured
substance formed. (ii) Write balanced chemical equation for both the
equation.
[CBSE 2012]
2. What is redox reaction? Identifying the substance oxidised and the
substance reduced in the following reactions: (i) 2PbO + C → Pb +
CO₂ (ii) MnO₂ + 4HCl → MnCl₂ + H₂O + Cl₂. [CBSE 2012]
3. What is rancidity? Mention any two ways by which rancidity can be
prevented.
[CBSE 2012]
4. Write balanced chemical equation for the reaction that take place
during respiration. Identifying the type of combination reaction that
take place during this process and justifying the name. Give one
more example of this type of reaction.
[CBSE 2012]
5. (a) Can we stir silver nitrate solution with a copper spoon? Why or why
not? Support you answer.
(b) Why a brown coating is formed on the iron rod when iron rod is kept
dipped in copper sulphate solution for some time? What change will be
observed in the colour of the solution.
(c) A green coating develops on the copper vessel in the rainy
season. Why?
[CBSE 2015]
6. (i) Account for the following:
(a) White silver chloride turns grey in sunlight.
(b) Brown coloured cooper powder on heating in air turns blacks into
coloured substance.
(ii) What do you mean by:
(a) Displacement reaction?
(b) Reduction reaction?
(c) Combination reaction? Write balanced chemical equation. [CBSE 2011]
7. (a) What is balanced chemical equation? Why should chemical equation
be balanced?
(b) Write the chemical equation of the reaction in which the following
changes has taken place:
(i) Change in colour.
(ii) Change in temperature.
(iii) Formation of precipitate.
[CBSE 2017]