Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Comment upon the following:
rigidity, compressibility, fluidity, filling a gas container, shape, kinetic energy and density.
Advertisements
Solution
- Rigidity: It is the property which helps a substance retain its shape when force is applied to it. Solids are rigid while gases and liquids are not.
- Compressibility: Compressibility is the property that allows particles of matter to be compressed or reduced in volume by applying force or pressure. Gases are very compressible.
- Fluidity: It is the tendency of a substance to flow. Liquids and gases possess fluidity while solids are rigid.
- Filling a gas container: Because of the minimal interparticle force of attraction, gas molecules can move in all directions and fill the container.
- Shape: Solids have a distinct shape, whereas liquids take on the shape of the container in which they are stored, and gases have no shape.
- Kinetic energy: Kinetic energy refers to the energy that particles contain as a result of their motion. Gas particles have the most kinetic energy because they can move freely in all directions. Solids have the lowest kinetic energy because their particles move the least.
- Density: Density refers to the mass of a substance per unit volume. Solids have the highest density because their molecules are tightly packed.
RELATED QUESTIONS
The mass per unit volume of a substance is called density.
(density = mass/volume).
Arrange the following in order of increasing density-
air, exhaust from chimneys, honey, water, chalk, cotton and iron.
Give a reason for the following observation.
Naphthalene balls disappear with time without leaving any solid.
If the fish is being fried in a neighbouring home, we can smell it sitting in our own home. Name the process which brings this smell to us.
Why does a gas exert pressure?
Why does a gas fill a vessel completely?
When a gas jar containing colourless air is kept upside down over a gas jar full of brown-coloured bromine vapour, then after some time, the brown colour of bromine vapour spreads into the upper gas jar making both the gas jars appear brown in colour. Which of the following conclusion obtained from these observations is incorrect?
Look at the diagram on the right side. Jar A contains a red-brown gas whereas jar B contains a colourless gas. The two gas jars are separated by a galas plate placed between them
- What will happen when the glass plate between the two jars is pulled away?
- What name is given to the phenomenon which takes place?
- Name the brown gas which could be in jar A.
- Which is the colourless gas most likely to be present in jar B?
- Name one coloured solid and one colourless liquid which can show the same phenomenon.
A substance has neither a fixed shape nor a fixed volume. State whether it is a solid, a liquid or a gas.
Explain why?
- A gas fills a vessel completely?
- Camphor disappears without leaving any residue.
A gaseous mixture of He and O2 is found to have a density of 0.518 gL-1 at 25° C and 720 torr. The mass percent of helium in this mixture is ______.
