Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
What is the general name of all the compounds made up of carbon and hydrogen?
Advertisements
Solution
The general name for all the compounds made up of hydrogen and carbon is hydrocarbon.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
Write true or false
Carbon constitues 0.03% of the earth’s crust.
Name the following:
Substances whose atoms or molecules are not arranged in a geometrical pattern.
What happens when a baking mixture containing baking powder is heated?
Explain the term ‘green house effect’. How can it be both beneficial and harmful for life on earth ?
Tick the most appropriate answer.
Each molecule of Buckminster fulierene contains 60 atoms of carbon arranged as balls consisting of 12 pentagons and
a. 20 hexagons
b. 30 hexagons
c. 40 hexagons
d. 50 hexagons
FILL IN THE BLANK
.................... is the main gaseous compound of carbon.
What are hydrocarbons ? Name the two different forms of hydrocarbons.
State two characteristic features of carbon which when put together give rise to a large number of carbon compounds.
In which compound forms does carbon occur?
A carbon atom forms a ______ bond with other atoms. In this bond the two atoms ______ electrons.
(single, all, double, ionic, carbon, give and take, hydrogen, multiple, share, most, covalent)
Answer the following question.
Draw methane electron dot structure.
Answer the following question.
What happens when methane compound burns in oxygen?
Name the following:
An acid formed when carbon dioxide is dissolved in water under pressure.
Give a balanced equation for the following conversion: [In one or two steps]
A metallic oxide to calcium carbonate.
What is carbon monoxide? Why is it toxic?
Carbon is one of the most important ______ elements.
The main component of water gas is ______.
Which of the following is highly toxic?
