EASY
10th CBSE
IMPORTANT
Earn 100

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

Important Questions on Carbon and its Compounds

HARD
10th CBSE
IMPORTANT
Draw the structure of methane by showing sharing of electrons between carbon and hydrogen atoms. How will you convert methane into chloroform (CHCl3) by substitution reaction? Explain with the help of chemical equations.
HARD
10th CBSE
IMPORTANT
Write the name and general formula of a chain of hydrocarbons in which an addition reaction with hydrogen can take place. Stating the essential conditions required for an addition reaction to occur, write the chemical equation giving the name of the reactant and the product of such a reaction.
MEDIUM
10th CBSE
IMPORTANT
State the meaning of functional group in a carbon compound. Write the functional group present in
(i) ethanol and (ii) ethanoic acid. Draw their structures.
HARD
10th CBSE
IMPORTANT
What will you observe when you drop a small piece of sodium into ethanol? Name the gas evolved. How will you test this gas? Write the chemical equation of the reaction taking place.