English Medium Class 10 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

Name the gas evolved when ethanoic acid is added to sodium carbonate. How would you prove the presence of this gas?

Which of the following will give brisk effervescence with sodium hydrogen carbonate and why?
CH₃COOH, CH₃CH₂OH

Complete the following equation:

`CH_3 COOH + CH_2 H_5 OH` 

What happens when propanoic acid is warmed with methanol in the presence of a few drops of concentrated sulphuric acid? Write equation of the reaction involved.

propanol into propanoic acid?
Name the process in each case and write the equations of the reactions involved.

How would you distinguish experimentally between an alcohol and  carboxylic acid on the basis of a chemical property?

What type of compound is formed when a carboxylic acid reacts with an alcohol in the presence of conc. H₂SO₄?

What will you observe when dilute ethanoic acid and dilute hydrochloric acid are put on universal indicator paper, one by one? What does it show?

What type to compound is CH₃COOH?

What is the physical state of CH₃COOH?

Choose those compounds from the following which can turn blue litmus solution red:
HCHO, CH₃COOH, CH₃OH, C₂H₅OH, HCOOH, CH₃CHO
Give reasons for your choice.

What happens when ethanoic acid reacts with sodium carbonate? Write chemical equation of the reaction involved.

What is an oxidising agent? 

Name two oxidising agents which can oxidise ethanol to ethanoic acid.

Describe one reaction of a carboxylic acid.