Embibe Experts Solutions for Chapter: Carbon and its Compounds, Exercise 1: Jharkhand Board-2020

What is hydrocarbon? 

What is a homologous series? Explain with an example. 

What is hydrogenation? What is its industrial application? 

Give any three uses of ethanoic acid. 

Write the structural formulae of the following compounds: 

(a) Ethanoic acid  (b) Bromopentane 

(c) Butanone  (d) Hexanal  and (e) Propanol. 

Which hydrocarbon group has the general formuIa ${\mathrm{C}}_{\mathrm{n}}{\mathrm{H}}_{2\mathrm{n}}$?

What is a homologous series? Explain with an example. 

What is isomerism? Write the names and structural formulas of the isomers of pentane.