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What makes potassium hydroxide a deliquescent substance?

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Important Questions on Acids, Bases and Salts

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State one relevant observation for of the following:

Anhydrous calcium chloride is exposed to air for some time.

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What is the role of deliquescent substances in controlling humidity?
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Nitric acid and hydrogen chloride can be prepared in the laboratory by heated sodium nitrate and sodium chloride respectively with conc. H2SO4. What is deliquescence?
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What is the critical relative humidity of sodium hydroxide?
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Which of these is an example of a deliquescent salt?
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Which of the following substances exhibits deliquescence?
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Give a suitable chemical term for 

The process in which a substance absorbs moisture from the atmospheric air to become moist and ultimately dissolves in the absorbed water.

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Which of the following substance can be used to detect moisture in its proximity?
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Explain why fused calcium chloride is used in the preparation of FeCl3?
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Select the correct answer from A, B, C, D and E

A. Nitroso iron [II] sulphate

B. Iron [III] chloride

C. Chromium sulphate

D. Lead chloride

E. Sodium chloride

(i) A deliquescent compound

(ii) A compound soluble in hot water but insoluble in cold water.

(iii) A compound which in the aqueous solution state, is neutral in nature.

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Which of the following is a non-deliquescent salt?
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Which of these is used as a desiccant?
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Write two example of deliquescent substance.

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From the list of salts — AgCl, MgCl2, NaHSO4, PbCO3, ZnCO3, KNO3, Ca(NO3)2, choose the salt that most appropriately fits the description given below:

a deliquescent salt 

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From the given compounds:

MgSO4.7H2O, FeCl3, Conc. H2SO4, NaKCO3, PbOHCl

Write the appropriate one: Deliquescent substance.

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Cotyledons are also called-
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Is table salt deliquescent in nature?
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Magnesium chloride when exposed to moisture absorbs it and forms an aqueous solution. This type of substance is a:
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Which one of the salts in the given list is deliquescent? Sodium chloride, anhydrous calcium chloride, copper sulphate-5-water.