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Give the uses of helium .

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1. Helium and oxygen mixture is used by divers in place of air oxygen mixture. This prevents the painful dangerous condition called bends.
2. Helium is used to provide inert atmosphere is electric arc welding of metals
3. Helium has lowest boiling point hence used in cryogenics (log temperature science).
4. It is much less denser than air the hence used for filling air balloons
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  2. What are interhalogen compounds ? Give examples .

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  3. Why fluorine is more reactive than other halogens?

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  5. What is the hybridisation of iodine in IF(7) ? Give its structure .

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  7. How will you prepare chlorine in the laboratory ?

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  9. Give a reason to support that sulphuric acid is a dehydrating agent.

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  10. Write the reason for the anamolous behaviour of nitrogen .

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  11. Write the molecular formula and structural formula for the following m...

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  12. Give the uses of argon.

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  13. Write the valence shell electronic configuration of group-15 elements.

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  14. Give the equations to illustrate the chemical behaviour of phosphine .

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  15. Give a reaction between nitric acid and a basic oxide.

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  16. What happens when PCl(5) is heated ?

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  18. Deduce the oxidation number of oxygen in hypofluorous acid -HOF.

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