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Ozone is an important constituent of the stratosphere as it blocks harmful UV rays from the Sun. Ozone has the chemical formula O3. Which word describes ozone? 

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Important Questions on Nature and Behaviour of Matter

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A reversible cyclic process for an ideal gas is shown below. Here, P, V, and T are pressure, volume and temperature, respectively. The thermodynamic parameters q, w, H and U are heat, work, enthalpy and internal energy, respectively.

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The correct option(s) is (are)
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The qualitative sketches I, II and III given below show the variation of surface tension with molar concentration of three different aqueous solutions of KCl, CH3OH  and CH3CH211OSO3- Na+ at room temperature. The correct assignment of the sketches is -

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The combination of plots which does not represent isothermal expansion of an ideal gas is

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A system consisting of 1 mol of an ideal gas undergoes a reversible process, ABCA (schematically indicated in the figure below). If the temperature at the starting point A is 300 K and the work done in the process BC is 1 L atm, the heat exchanged in the entire process in L atm is

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One mole of an ideal monatomic gas is compressed isothermally in a rigid vessel to double its pressure at room temperature, 27oC . The magnitude of work done on the gas will be:
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A piston filled with 0.04 mol of an ideal gas expands reversibly from 50.0 mL to 375 mL at a constant temperature of 3 7 . 0 C. As it does so, it absorbs 208 J of heat. The values of q and w for the process will be 
(R = 8.314 J/mol K) (ln7.5 = 2.01)
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An ideal gas undergoes isothermal compression from 5 m3 to 1 m3 against a constant external pressure of 4 N m-2. The heat released in this process is 24 J mol-1K-1 and is used to increase the pressure of 1 mole of Al. The temperature of Al increases by:
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A gas undergoes change from state A to state B. In this process, the heat absorbed and work done by the gas is 5 J and 8 J, respectively. Now gas is brought back to A by another process during which 3 J of heat is evolved. In this reverse process of B to A.
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An ideal gas undergoes a cyclic process as shown in the figure
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UBC=-5KJmol-1,qAB=2KJmol-1

WAB=-5KJmol-1,WCA=3KJmol-1 

Heat absorbed by the system during process CA is
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Consider the reversible isothermal expansion of an ideal gas in a closed system at two different temperatures T1 and T2T1<T2 . The correct graphical depiction of the dependence of work done w vs the final volume V is:
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The work done during combustion of 9×10-2 kg of ethane, C2H6(g) at 300 K is (Given R=8.314 JK1mol1 , atomic mass C=12,H=1 )
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Given, van der Waal's constant for NH3, H2, O2 and CO2 are respectively 4.17, 0.244, 1.36 and 3.59. Which one of the following gases is most easily liquefied?
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Calculate the work done during compression of 2 mol of an ideal gas from a volume of 1m3 to 10 dm3 at 300 K against a pressure of 100 kPa.
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The above P-V diagram represents the thermodynamic cycle of an engine, operating with an ideal mono-atomic gas. The amount of heat, extracted from the source in a single cycle, is:
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X g of ice at 0oC is added to 340g of water at 20oC . The final temperature of the resultant mixture is 5oC . The value of X (in g) is closest to

[Heat of fusion of ice =333 J/g ; Specific heat of water =4.184 J/g.K ]
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For the isothermal reversible expansion of an ideal gas
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An ideal gas undergoes isothermal expansion at constant pressure. During the process:
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A piece of ice falls from a height h so that it melts completely. Only one-quarter of the heat produced is absorbed by the ice and all energy of ice gets converted into heat during its fall. The value of h is:
(Latent heat of ice is 3.4×105J kg-1 and g=10N kg-1)
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Calculate the work done during combustion of 0.138 kg of ethanol, (C2H5OH(l)) at at 300 K. Given: R=8.314 Jk-1 mol-1 and molar mass of ethanol =46 g mol-1.
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Select the correct options from the following statements:

I. C612 and C614 are isobars of each other.

II. C612 reacts with O816 to form a product which contains ionic bonds.

III. Ca2040 and Ar1840 are isobars of each other.

IV. Ca2040 reacts with O816 to form a compound whose aqueous solution is known as lime water.