EASY
12th Odisha Board
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Earn 100

Explain why :

Though dimethyl ether and ethanol are isomers, still the dimethyl ether is a gas and ethanol is a liquid at room temperature.

Important Questions on Alcohols

MEDIUM
12th Odisha Board
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Chemistry Volume-2>Chapter 15 - Alcohols>QUESTIONS>Q 1
Describe two methods of preparation of alcohols. Write the reaction of alcohol with PCl5.
MEDIUM
12th Odisha Board
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Chemistry Volume-2>Chapter 15 - Alcohols>QUESTIONS>Q 1
Write the reaction of alcohol with CH3COOH.
HARD
12th Odisha Board
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Chemistry Volume-2>Chapter 15 - Alcohols>QUESTIONS>Q 2
How ethyl alcohol can be converted to methyl alcohol and vice versa? Write any two reactions by which ethyl alcohol is distinguished from methyl alcohol.
HARD
12th Odisha Board
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Chemistry Volume-2>Chapter 15 - Alcohols>QUESTIONS>Q 3
Write notes on Victor Meyer's method for distinction of different classes of alcohols.
HARD
12th Odisha Board
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Chemistry Volume-2>Chapter 15 - Alcohols>QUESTIONS>Q 3
Write notes on how methyl alcohol can be converted into ethyl alcohol and vice versa.
HARD
12th Odisha Board
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Chemistry Volume-2>Chapter 15 - Alcohols>QUESTIONS>Q 4
What are primary, secondary and tertiary alcohol? How can you obtain each of these using Grignard reagent?  
HARD
12th Odisha Board
IMPORTANT
Bureau's Higher Secondary Chemistry Volume-2>Chapter 15 - Alcohols>QUESTIONS>Q 4

What happens when primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols are

i) oxidised with K2Cr2O7 and H2SO4?

ii) passed over heated copper?

HARD
12th Odisha Board
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Chemistry Volume-2>Chapter 15 - Alcohols>QUESTIONS>Q 5
What is fermentation? How is ethanol obtained commercially by fermentation of starch? What happens when ethanol reacts with sodium metal?