Revision WS-Chemistry SA2 '23-24
Revision WS-Chemistry SA2 '23-24
Revision WS-Chemistry SA2 '23-24
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2.The ion of an element has 3 negative charges. The mass number of the atom is 14 and the
number of neutrons is 7. What is the number of electrons in the ion?
(a) 8 (b) 10 (c) 12 (d) 24
(a) Both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
(b) Both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
i.Calcium carbonate
ii.Potassium nitrate
iii.Sodium hydroxide
iv.Magnesium chloride
11.An element ₁₂X ²⁴ loses two electrons to form a cation which combines with the anion of
element ₁₇Y³⁵ formed by gaining an electron.
(iii) Write the formula for the compound formed by the combination of X and Y.
12.Why is steam at 100°C better for heating purposes than water at 100°C?
15.Doctors advise to put strips of wet cloth on the forehead of a person having high fever.Give
reason.
17) 65g of glucose is dissolved in 435g of water.Calculate the concentration of the solution in
terms of mass by mass percentage.
18.The average atomic mass of a sample of an element X is 16.2 u. What are the percentages of
isotopes in ₈X¹⁶ and ₈X¹⁸ in the sample?
Rutherford (1871-1937) was known as the Father of nuclear physics. He is famous for his work
on radioactivity and the discovery of the nucleus of an atom with the gold foil experiment. Ernest
Rutherford was interested in knowing how the electrons are arranged within an atom. Rutherford
designed an experiment for this. In this experiment, fast-moving alpha α -particles were made to
fall on a thin gold foil. On the basis of his experiment,
Rutherford put forward the nuclear model of an atom, which had the following features:
• There is a positively charged centre in an atom called the nucleus. Nearly all the mass of an
• The size of the nucleus is very small compared to the size of the atom.
Drawbacks of Rutherford’s model of the atom: The revolution of the electron in a circular orbit is
not expected to be stable. Any particle in a circular orbit would undergo acceleration. During
acceleration, charged particles would radiate energy. Thus, the revolving electron would lose
energy and finally fall into the nucleus. If this were so, the atom should be
highly unstable and hence matter would not exist in the form that we know. We know that atoms
are quite stable.
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