Chemistry questions and answers

Chemistry Questions and Answers

Learn more about the properties, composition, and structure of substances (elements and compounds) with these Chemistry questions and answers. This Test can be used by students preparing for Chemistry in JAMB, WAEC, NECO or Post UTME.

286.

The mass number of a nucleus is?

A.

Always less than its atomic number

B.

The sum of the number of protons and neutrons present in the nucleus

C.

Always more than the atomic weight

D.

A fraction

Correct answer is B

mass number, is the sum of the numbers of protons and neutrons present in the nucleus of an atom.

287.

The reactivity of fluorine is due to?

A.

its high electro negativity

B.

small size of fluorine atom

C.

availability of D-orbitals

D.

strong f-f bond

Correct answer is A

fluorine (F), most reactive chemical element and the lightest member of the halogen elements.

 As the most electronegative element, it is extremely reactive.

288.

Soaps clean surfaces on the principle based on?

A.

viscosity

B.

floatation

C.

elasticity

D.

surface tension

Correct answer is D

Since the surface tension forces become smaller as the distance between water molecules increases, the intervening soap molecules decrease the surface tension.

289.

Which of the following is a form of calcium carbonate?

I. limestone
II. marble
III. chalk
Iv. egg-shells

A.

I only

B.

I, II and IV

C.

I and II only

D.

I, II, III, and IV

Correct answer is D

- Calcium trioxocarbonate (IV) occurs abundantly in earth's crust as limestone, chalk and marble

- Eggshell is made almost entirely of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) crystals.

290.

Neutrons were discovered by?

A.

James Chadwick

B.

Ernest Rutherford

C.

J.J Thompson

D.

John Dalton

Correct answer is A

 - Sir James Chadwick, was a British physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. 

- Ernest Rutherford postulated the nuclear structure of the atom, discovered alpha and beta rays, and proposed the laws of radioactive decay.

- Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be discovered. 

- John Dalton was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. He is best known for introducing the atomic theory into chemistry