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(a) What is buckminsterfullerene? How is...

(a) What is buckminsterfullerene? How is it related to diamond and graphite?
(b) Why is diamond used for making cutting tools (like glass cutters) but graphite is not?
(c) Why is graphite used for making dry cell electrodes but diamond is not?

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LAKHMIR SINGH & MANJIT KAUR-CARBON AND ITS COMPOUNDS-Exercise
  1. (a) what is the gneeral name of all the compounds made up opf carbon a...

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  2. (a) What is meant by catenation? Name two element which exhibit the pr...

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  3. (a) What is buckminsterfullerene? How is it related to diamond and gra...

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  4. (a) Give the general formula of an : (i) alkane,(ii) alkene,(iii) alky...

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  5. (a) Friedrich Wohler converted an inorganic compound into an organic c...

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  6. Give IUPAC names and formulae of an orgnaic compound containign single...

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  7. Catenaion is the ability of an atom to form bonds with other atoms of ...

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  8. (a) How can diamonds be made artificailally? How do synthetic diamonds...

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  9. (a) why does the element carbon from a large . Number of carbon compou...

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  10. (a) Give the name and structural formula of one member each of the fo...

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  11. (a) What is the unique property of carbon atom? Hopw is this property ...

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  12. (a) Giving their structures , state the number of single bonds , doubl...

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  13. (a) Write t wo points of difference in the structures of diamond and g...

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  14. (a) What is diamond ? Of what substance is diamond made? (b) Describ...

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  15. (a) What is graphite? Of what substance is graphite made? (b) Descri...

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  16. (a) Explain the term isomers. Give one example of isomers. (b) Write...

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  17. (a) What are hydrocarbons? Explain it with examples. (b) Explain the...

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  18. Buckminsterfullerene is an allotropic form of

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  19. Out of the following pairs of compounds the unsaturated compounds are ...

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  20. Pentane has the molecular formula C(5)H(12). It has

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