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CHEMISTRY INTERVIEW

Questions Answers
What is the chemical name of water? Hydrogen oxide
What is difference between hydrolysis Hydrolysis is the reaction of salt and
and neutralization? water to form acid and base.
Neutralization is the reaction of acid
and base to form salt and water.
Define oxidation and reduction? Addition of Oxygen and removal of
Hydrogen is called oxidation.
Loss of electrons is also oxidation.
Addition of hydrogen and removal of
oxygen is called reduction.
Gain of electrons is reduction.
Name types of chemical bonds. Ionic bond
Covalent bond
Coordinate covalent bond
Metallic bond
What is soft and hard water? Water which easily produces leather
with soap is called soft water.
Water which does not easily produce
leather with soap and form curds is
called hard water.
Which hybridization takes place in Sp3 hybridization
methane?
What is the common unit of viscosity? Poise
What is viscosity? The resistance to the flow of liquid is
called viscosity.
What is the unit of surface tension? N m-1 or J m-2
What is Boyle’s law Volume is inversely proportional to
pressure of the gas at constant
temperature.
What is charle’s law Volume is directly proportional to
absolute temperature at constant
pressure.
What is diffusion of gases? Spontaneous mixing of gases due to
random motion.
What is the formula of sodium Na2S2O3
thiosulphate?
What is the formula of potassium K2Cr2O7
dichromate?
What is symbol? The shortest name of an element is
called symbol.
Why sodium symbol is Na although Na is from Natrium not from sodium.
there is no Na in sodium?
What are isotopes and isobars? Atoms having same atomic number but
different mass number are isotopes.
Atoms having same atomic mass but
different atomic number are isobars.
Write the electronic configuration of Cr 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s1 3d5
= atomic no is 24
Glucose is hydrocarbon or not? Not because hydrocarbons contains
only C and H but in glucose there is O
also.
What is the General formula of alkyl Cn H2n+1
group?
Give types of polymerization. Addition polymerization
Condensation polymerization
Why group 7 elements are called Halo = salt
halogens? Genes = producer
What is isomerism? Compounds having same molecular
formula but different structures are
called isomers and the phenomenon is
called isomerism.

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