General Chemistry MCQ

1. What is a chemical property?

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Correct Answer: A characteristic of a material involving its chemical change

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2. What is chemical nomenclature?

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Correct Answer: The systematic naming of chemical compounds

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3. What is chemical kinetics?

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Correct Answer: The study of how reaction rates change under varying conditions.

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4. What does a chemical formula convey?

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Correct Answer: The relative proportions of atoms of the different elements in a substance

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5. What is chemical equilibrium?

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Correct Answer: The state reached by a reaction mixture when the rates of forward and reverse reactions have become equal.

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6. What is a chemical equation?

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Correct Answer: The symbolic representation of a chemical reaction in terms of chemical formulas

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7. What is a chemical bond?

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Correct Answer: A strong attractive force that exists between certain atoms in a substance

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8. What is Chelate?

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Correct Answer: A complex formed by polydentate ligands

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9. Which of the following is not directly proportional to the absolute temperature?

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Correct Answer: The volume occupied by any sample of gas at a constant pressure

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10. What is Charles's law?

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Correct Answer: The volume occupied by any sample of gas at a constant pressure is directly proportional to the absolute temperature.

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11. What is a change of state?

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Correct Answer: A change of a substance from one state to another.

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12. What is a nuclear chain reaction?

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Correct Answer: A self-sustaining series of nuclear fissions caused by the absorption of neutrons released from previous nuclear fissions.

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13. What is a chain reaction?

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Correct Answer: A self-sustaining series of nuclear fissions caused by the absorption of neutrons released from previous nuclear fissions

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14. How many units are in the Celsius temperature scale?

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Correct Answer: 100

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15. What is the normal boiling point of water on the Celsius scale?

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Correct Answer: 100 units

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16. What is a cell reaction?

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Correct Answer: The net reaction that occurs in a voltaic cell.

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17. What is the cell potential?

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Correct Answer: The maximum potential difference between the electrodes of a voltaic cell

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18. What is the maximum potential difference between the electrodes of a voltaic cell called?

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Correct Answer: Cell potential

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19. What does a cation exchange resin do?

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Correct Answer: Removes cations from solution and replaces them with hydrogen ions

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20. What is a cation?

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Correct Answer: A positively charged ion

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21. What are cathode rays?

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Correct Answer: The rays emitted by the cathode in a gas discharge tube

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22. What is the definition of "cathode"?

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Correct Answer: The electrode at which reduction occurs

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23. What is the electrode at which reduction occurs?

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Correct Answer: Cathode

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24. What is catenation?

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Correct Answer: The covalent bonding of two or more atoms of the same element to one another

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25. What is a catalyst?

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Correct Answer: A substance that increases the rate of reaction without being consumed in the overall reaction.

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26. What is catalysis?

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Correct Answer: The increase in rate of a reaction as the result of the addition of a catalyst

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27. What is the carboxyl group?

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Correct Answer: ? COOH

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28. What is the IUPAC name of carboxylic acid?

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Correct Answer: Carboxylic acid

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29. What is a calorimeter?

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Correct Answer: A device used to measure the heat absorbed or evolved during a physical or chemical change.

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30. What is the unit of energy in Calorie?

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Correct Answer: Joule

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31. How many joules are in 1 calorie?

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Correct Answer: 4.184

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32. What is a black light?

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Correct Answer: A lamp that emits ultraviolet radiation.

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33. What does a black light emit?

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Correct Answer: Ultraviolet radiation

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34. What is the name for the element with atomic number 83?

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Correct Answer: Bismuth

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35. What is the chemistry of living things called?

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Correct Answer: Biochemistry

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36. What is the binding energy needed for?

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Correct Answer: To remove an electron from an atom or separate a proton or neutron from the atomic nucleus.

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37. What is the binding energy needed to remove an electron from an atom?

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Correct Answer: To remove an electron from an atom

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38. What is a binary acid?

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Correct Answer: An acidic binary compound in which one element is hydrogen and the other element is another nonmetal.

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39. What is beta radiation?

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Correct Answer: Ionizing radiation from beta decay in the form of an energetic electron or positron.

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40. What is a beta particle?

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Correct Answer: An electron or positron emitted during beta decay

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41. What is beta decay?

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Correct Answer: Type of radioactive decay that results in spontaneous emission of a beta particle.

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42. What is the element symbol for beryllium?

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Correct Answer: Be

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43. What is the atomic number of beryllium?

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Correct Answer: 4

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44. What is the element symbol for berkelium?

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Correct Answer: Bk

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45. What is the name of the law that states the concentration of a solution is directly proportional to its light absorbance?

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Correct Answer: Beer's Law (Beer-Lambert Law)

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46. What is the Beer-Lambert law?

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Correct Answer: The concentration of a solution is directly proportional to its light absorbance.

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47. Which type of solution has a pH greater than 7?

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Correct Answer: Basic solution

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48. What does "basic" mean in the context of pH?

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Correct Answer: Having a pH > 7

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49. What is the definition of "basic"?

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Correct Answer: Alkaline or having a pH > 7.

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50. Which of the following is not a base metal?

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Correct Answer: Noble metal

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51. What is a base anhydride?

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Correct Answer: A metal oxide formed from the reaction between water and a basic solution

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52. What is the definition of "base"?

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Correct Answer: A chemical species that either accepts protons or else donates electrons or hydroxide ions.

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53. What is a barometer used for?

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Correct Answer: Measuring atmospheric pressure

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54. What is the element symbol for Barium?

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Correct Answer: Ba

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55. There are ____ lines in the visible spectrum

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Correct Answer: Four

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56. A balanced equation must have the same number of ____ on both sides.

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Correct Answer: Atoms

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57. What is the analyte concentration determined by back titration?

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Correct Answer: Reacting it with a known quantity of excess reagent.

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58. What is the meaning of "back titration"?

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Correct Answer: Titration in which the analyte concentration is determined by reacting it with a known quantity of excess reagent.

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59. What is background radiation?

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Correct Answer: Radiation from external sources, typically from cosmic radiation and radioisotope decay.

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60. The Aufbau principle is a scheme used to reproduce what?

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Correct Answer: Electron configurations of the ground states of atoms

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61. The building-up principle is a scheme used to reproduce what?

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Correct Answer: The electron configurations of the ground states of atoms

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62. When limited amounts of acid or base are added to a solution, it is said to be ________________.

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Correct Answer: Buffer

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63. What is buckminsterfullerene?

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Correct Answer: A molecular form of carbon (C60)

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64. What is the name given to the soccer-ball shaped molecule Buckminsterfullerene?

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Correct Answer: "Buckyball"

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65. What is a base in the Brønsted-Lowry concept?

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Correct Answer: The species accepting a proton in a proton-transfer reaction

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66. What is a base according to the Brønsted-Lowry concept?

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Correct Answer: The species accepting a proton in a proton-transfer reaction

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67. Which of the following is not true about Boyle's law?

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Correct Answer: The volume of a sample of gas at a given temperature varies inversely with the applied pressure

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68. What is Boyle's law?

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Correct Answer: The volume of a sample of gas at a given temperature varies inversely with the applied pressure.

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69. What is a bonding pair?

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Correct Answer: An electron pair shared between two atoms

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70. What are bonding orbitals?

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Correct Answer: Molecular orbitals that are concentrated in the regions between nuclei

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71. What is the bond order in molecular orbital theory?

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Correct Answer: One-half the difference between the number of bonding electrons and the number of antibonding electrons

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72. What is the bond order in a Lewis formula?

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Correct Answer: The number of pairs of electrons in a bond

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73. What is the bond length between two atoms?

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Correct Answer: The distance between the nuclei in a bond.

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74. What is the bond length?

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Correct Answer: The distance between the nuclei in a bond

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75. What is the average enthalpy change for the breaking of a bond in a molecule in the gas phase?

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Correct Answer: Bond energy

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76. What is Bond Energy?

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Correct Answer: The average enthalpy change for the breaking of a bond in a molecule in the gas phase

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77. What is the boiling point of a solution equal to?

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Correct Answer: The boiling point of the solution minus the boiling point of the pure solvent

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78. What is the boiling point?

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Correct Answer: The temperature at which the vapor pressure of a liquid equals the atmospheric pressure

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79. What is Binding energy?

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Correct Answer: The energy needed to break a nucleus into its individual protons and neutrons

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80. What is binary hydride?

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Correct Answer: A compound that contains hydrogen and one other element

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81. What is a binary compound?

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Correct Answer: A compound composed of only two elements

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82. What is a bimolecular reaction?

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Correct Answer: An elementary reaction that involves two reactant molecules

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83. What is a bidentate ligand?

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Correct Answer: A ligand that bonds to a metal atom through two atoms of the ligand

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84. What is Beta emission?

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Correct Answer: Emission of a high-speed electron from an unstable nucleus

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85. What is bent geometry?

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Correct Answer: Angular geometry

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86. What is the Bayer process?

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Correct Answer: A chemical procedure in which purified aluminum oxide, Al2O3, is separated from the aluminum ore bauxite

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87. What is a basic oxide?

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Correct Answer: An oxide that reacts with acids.

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88. What is the base-ionization constant for NH3?

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Correct Answer: 1.8 x 10-5

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89. What does the base-ionization constant represent?

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Correct Answer: The equilibrium constant for the ionization of a weak base

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90. What is the name of the process that determines the sequence of nucleotides in DNA?

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Correct Answer: Replication

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91. What is the process of base pairing called?

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Correct Answer: Hydrogen bonding

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92. What is the definition of a base according to the Brønsted?Lowry definition?

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Correct Answer: The species that accepts a proton in a proton-transfer reaction

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93. What is a base?

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Correct Answer: A substance that produces hydroxide ions, OH-, when it dissolves in water

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94. What is a base according to the Arrhenius definition?

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Correct Answer: A substance that produces hydroxide ions, OH-, when it dissolves in water.

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95. What is the use of a barometer?

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Correct Answer: Measuring the pressure of the atmosphere

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96. What is the value of 1 bar?

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Correct Answer: 1 x 105 Pa

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97. What is the band theory?

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Correct Answer: A theory that explains the electrical properties of solids

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98. What does band of stability refer to?

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Correct Answer: The region in which stable nuclides lie in a plot of number of protons against number of neutrons

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99. What is the definition of actual yield?

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Correct Answer: The quantity of product experimentally obtained from a chemical reaction.

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100. What is an activity series?

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Correct Answer: A list of metals ranked in order of decreasing activity.

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