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Question 11 Mark
The atomic numbers of three elements A, B and C are 12, 18 and 20 respectively. State, giving reason, which two elements will show similar properties.
Answer
Elements Atomic Number Electronic Configuaration
A
B
C
12
18
20
2, 8, 2
2, 8, 8
2, 8, 8, 2
Elements A and C will show similar properties as both have same number of valence elements.
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Question 21 Mark
Write the atomic numbers of two elements ‘X’ and ‘Y’ having electronic configurations 2, 8, 2 and 2, 8, 6 respectively.
Answer
Atomic number of X = 2 + 8 + 2 = 12
Atomic number of Y = 2 + 8 + 6 = 16
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Question 31 Mark
State modern periodic law of classification of elements.
Answer
Modem periodic law states “that the properties of elements are a periodic function of their atomic numbers”.
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Question 41 Mark
Write any one difference in the electronic configurations of group- I and group-2 elements?
Answer
  • Elements of group 1 have one electron in their outermost shell.
  • Elements of group 2 have two electrons in their outermost shell.
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Question 51 Mark
Write the number of horizontal rows in the modern periodic table. What are these rows called?
Answer
There are seven horizontal rows in the modern periodic table; these rows are called periods.
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Question 61 Mark
Write the number of vertical columns in the modern periodic table. What are these columns called?
Answer
There are 18 vertical columns in a periodic table. These vertical columns are called groups.
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Question 71 Mark
How many vertical columns are there in the modern periodic table and what are they called?
Answer
There are 18 vertical columns in the modern periodic table and they are called as ‘Groups’.
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Question 81 Mark
What property do all the elements in the same group of the periodic table as fluorine have in common?
Answer
The element fluorine is in group 17 of the periodic table and has a valency of 1. So, all the elements in the same group of periodic table as fluorine will have a valency of 1.
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Question 91 Mark
Besides gallium, which two other elements have since been discovered for which Mendeleev had left gaps in his periodic table?
Answer
Silicon and Germanium.
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Question 101 Mark
Name.
Two elements forming oxides of the types $XO _3$.
Answer
Two elements that can form oxides of type $XO _3$ are Aluminium and Iron( Fe $)$. Formulae of their oxides are: $AlO _3$ and $FeO _3$.
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Question 121 Mark
Which group of elements was missing from Mendeleev’s original periodic table?
Answer
Noble gases were missing from Mendeleev’s original periodic table.
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Question 131 Mark
Among the following elements F, Cl, Br and I, which does not fit in Dobereiner’s triad.
Answer
F does not fit in dobereiner’s triad.
Dobereiner stated that when the elements in a group are arranged in increasing order of their atomic masses then the atomic mass of the middle element is approximately the average of atomic masses of two other elements. Fluorine doesn’t fit into this rule while the atomic mass of Br is average of the atomic masses of Cl and I.
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Question 141 Mark
Which element comes after (right) lithium in the periodic table?
Answer
Lithium is the third element in the periodic table. Thus, the element which comes after Lithium is the fourth element, ie, Beryllium.
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Question 151 Mark
How does metallic character vary down a group?
Answer
Metallic character increases in a period and decreases down the group. In a period successive addition of electron occur so atomic size decreases thus electrons are held tightly thus metallic character increase. In a group successive addition of shells occur so atomic size increase so electron are held lossesly so they can easily lose electron.
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Question 161 Mark
Name the scientists who gave the following laws in the early classification of elements:
  1. Law of octaves.
  2. Law of triads.
Answer
  1. Newlands.
  2. Dobereiner.
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Question 171 Mark
Four elements P, Q, R, and S have atomic numbers $12,13,14$ and 15 respectively. Answer the following questions giving reasons. Which of these elements will form the most basic oxide?
Answer
The most basic oxide is formed by p with atomic number 12 that is magnesium. Metal oxide is MgO. Oxide formed by q that is aluminium is amphoteric. $\left( Al _2 O _3\right)$. Other elements, r and s forms acidic oxides.
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Question 191 Mark
How does the electropositive character of elements change on going down in a group of the periodic table?
Answer
On going down in a group of the periodic table, the electropositive character of elements increases.
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Question 201 Mark
X and Y are the two elements having similar properties which obey Newlands’ law of octaves. How many elements are there in - between X and Y?
Answer
Six elements.
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Question 211 Mark
An element ‘X’ belongs to the second group of periodic table. What is the formula of its chloride?
Answer
Valency of X = 2
Formula of Chloride $= XCl _2$
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Question 221 Mark
An element X has mass number 40 and contains 21 neutrons in its atom. To which group of the periodic table does it belong?
Answer
Group 1 (2, 8, 8, 1).
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Question 231 Mark
X is an element of modern periodic table. It is surrounded by elements having atomic number 17, 34, 36 and 53.Which among these do not belong the same period?
Answer
Among these Chlorine (17) and Iodine (53) do not belong to the same period.
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Question 241 Mark
In the classification of the then known elements, Mendeleev was guided by two factors. What are those two factors?
Answer
Mendeleev was guided by two factors:
  1. Increasing atomic masses.
  2. Grouping together of elements having similar properties.
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Question 251 Mark
The three elements predicted by Mendeleev from the gaps in his periodic table were known as eka - boron, eka - aluminium and eka-silicon. What names were given to these elements when they were discovered later on?
Answer
Scandium, Gallium, Germanium.
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Question 261 Mark
Given alongside is a part of the periodic table:
As we move horizontally from left to right:
  1. What happens to the metallic character of the elements?
  2. What happens to the atomic size?
Li Be   B C N O P
Na Mg   Al Si P S Cl
Answer
  1. Metallic character decreases.
  2. Atomic size decreases.
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Question 271 Mark
Name.
Two elements having valency 2 with respect to oxygen.
Answer
Two elements that can show a valency of two with respect to oxygen are Berilliym, magnesium.
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Question 281 Mark
How does the chemical reactivity of alkali metals vary on going down in group 1 of the periodic table?
Answer
In group 1 of alkali metals, the chemical reactivity increases from lithium to francium.
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Question 291 Mark
Out of Li, C and N, which element form the most basic oxide and which form the most acidic oxide?
Answer
Li, C and N all three belong to the same period. They are present in the order: Li < Be < B < C < N.On moving along a period from left to right, the metallic character decreases and non-metallic character increases. So Lithium forms the most basic oxide as it is a metal and nitrogen forms the most acidic oxide as it is a non - metal.
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Question 301 Mark
How do electronic configurations of elements change in second period of periodic table with increase in atomic numbers?
Answer
2, 1; 2, 2; 2, 3; 2, 4; 2, 5; 2, 6; 2, 7; 2, 8.​​​​
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Question 311 Mark
On what basis did Mendeleev arrange the elements in his periodic table?
Answer
Mendeleev arrange the element in his periodic table on the basis of atomic masses.
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Question 321 Mark
On what basis Mendeleev classify the elements?
Answer
Mendeleev classified the then known 56 elements on the basis of their physical and chemical properties in the increasing order of the atomic masses, in the form of a table. Mendeleev had observed that properties of the elements orderly recur in a cyclic fashion. He found that the elements with similar properties recur at regular intervals when the elements are arranged in the order of their increasing atomic masses. He concluded that 'the physical and chemical properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic masses'. This came to be known as the law of chemical periodicity.
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Question 331 Mark
X is an element with atomic number 20.Among X or Mg, which one is more reactive?
Answer
Atomic number of Mg is 12. Electronic configuration is 2, 8, 2. Atomic number of Mg is less than X. It means Mg will come before X. They will lie in same group as both have same number of valence electrons. Reactivity of metals increases down the group. I means X is more reactive than Mg.
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Question 341 Mark
How does the atomic size of the elements very along a period?
Answer
He distance between the centre of the nucleus and the outermost orbit of the atom is called the atomic radius of the atom of an element.Variation along the period: - The atomic radius decreases as we move from left to right along the period. This is due to an increase in nuclear charge which tends to pull the electrons closer to the nucleus and reduces the size of the atom.
Variation along the group: - The atomic radius increases down the group. This is because new shells are being added as we go down the group. This increases the distance between the outermost electrons and the nucleus so the atomic size increases inspite of the increase in nuclear charge.
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Question 351 Mark
A, B and C are the elements of a Dobereiner’s triad. If the atomic mass of A is 7 and that of C is 39, what should be the atomic mass of B?
Answer
Mass of $\text{B}=\frac{7+39}{2}=23$
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Question 361 Mark
An element ‘B’ belongs to the second period and Group 13. Give the formula of its oxide.
Answer
The element belongs to group 13 . So, the number of valence electrons in it is 3 . Thus its formula of oxide will be $B _2 O _3$.
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Question 371 Mark
How many groups and periods are present in the modem periodic table?
Answer
There are 18 groups and 7 periods present in the modern periodic table. Modern periodic table states that properties of element are periodic function of their atomic number.
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Question 381 Mark
How does the valency of elements change on moving from left to right in the third period of the periodic table?
Answer
The valency of elements increases from 1 to 4 and then decreases to zero in the 3rd period.
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Question 391 Mark
What is the number of valence electrons in the last element of the $3^{\text {rd }}$ size?
Answer
The last element of third size means last element of third period and the last element of third period is Argon(Ar) which has 8 valence electrons.
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Question 401 Mark
Name two elements whose properties were predicted on the basis of their positions in Mendeleev’s periodic table.
Answer
Eka-Aluminium (gallium) and Eka - Silicon (germanium).
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Question 411 Mark
X is an element with atomic number 20.
Is it a metal or a non - metal?
Answer
Atomic number of X is 20. Electronic configuration is 2, 8, 8, 2. Valence electrons in X is 2. Metals have valence electrons less than 4. So X is metal.The element is Ca.
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Question 421 Mark
Identify and name the metals out of the following element whose electronic configurations are given below.
2, 8, 2.
Answer
Magnesium.
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Question 431 Mark
Name the scientist who prepared modern periodic table.
Answer
The modern periodic table was prepared by Bohr.
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Question 441 Mark
What happens to the metallic character of the elements as we go down in a group of the periodic table?
Answer
On going down in a group of the periodic table, the metallic character of elements increases.
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Question 451 Mark
Which has smaller size, Na or $Na ^{+}$?
Answer
According to the electronic configuration of sodium( Na ), it has 1 valence electron( $2,8,1$.So it loses one electron to form a cation and becomes sodium cation $\left( Na ^{+}\right)$.As it loses one electron, the outermost shell has 0 electrons (i.e it gets eliminated) and $Na +$ has only 2 shells. Hence, it lost one of its shell, the sodium ion is smaller than the sodium atom.
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Question 461 Mark
Rewrite the following statements after correction, if necessary:
  1. Groups have elements with consecutive atomic
  2. Periods are the horizontal rows of elements.
  3. Isotopes are the elements of the same group.
Answer
  1. Periods have elements with consecutive atomic numbers.
  2. Correct.
  3. Correct.
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Question 481 Mark
Arrange the following element in increasing order of their atomic radii.
Cl, At, Br, I.
Answer
Cl, At, Br and I belong to same group of periodic table that is group 17. As we move down in a group, the atomic radii of elements increase due to increasing the number of shell. Thus, atomic radii of Cl, At, Br and I increase in the order: Cl < Br < I < At.
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Question 491 Mark
X is an element of modern periodic table. It is surrounded by elements having atomic number 17, 34, 36 and 53.
What is the atomic number of X?
Answer
The element is Bromine (atomic number 35)
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Question 501 Mark
Identify the element with the following property and arrange them in increasing order of their reactivity:The metal which is an important constituent of limestone.
Answer
Calcium.
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