Fill in the blanks with appropriate word.

1.
unit.

........................ is a crystalline allotrope of carbon built up from a tetrahedral

2. ........................ an amorphous allotrope of carbon, is used for making printers ink

and black shoe polish.
3. To increase the adsorption capacity of wood charcoal, a process called ________is
carried out.
4. Organic wastes such as animal dung are made to decay in the absence air to
give____, a gaseous fuel.
5.A____________fire extinguisher contains sodium bicarbonate solution and a bottle
containing conc. sulphuric acid.
6.Carbon monoxide burns in air with a ___________ flame to formcarbon dioxide.
7.Carbon monoxide is a

_____________of combustion.

8.Carbon monoxide is used as a_______in the extraction of puremetals from their

corresponding ores.
9.Coal and petroleum are_____________fuels.
10.The temperature at which a combustible substance catches fire is called its
__________
11......................... is added to LPG to detect its leakage.
12.Combustion is an____________ reaction.
13. Coal is a/an_____________

form of carbon.

14. ........................ is the most inferior form of coal.

15. Wood charcoal is a_____________conductor of heat and electricity.
16. The element_________________is present in both living and non-living things.
17.The tendency of an element to exist in two or more forms but in the same
physical state is called___
18. ................... and_________________are the two major allotropes of carbon.
19

......................... is the hardest substance that occurs naturally.

Give reasons for the following.

1. Diamond and graphite are the allotropic modifications of carbon.

2. Electrodes in an electrolytic cell used in the electrolysis of molten lead bromide

are made of graphite.
3. A piece of wood charcoal floats on water, but if the water is boiled the charcoal
sinks to the bottom.
4. It is necessary to keep all windows open and allow proper ventilation during
winter nights when a person sleeps in a closed room with a coal fire burning.
5. A burning candle can be extinguished by blowing air on it.
6. A soda acid fire extinguisher is not used for fighting oil fires.
7. Diamond is used as a tip for deep boring drills.
8. Graphite is used for making lubricants.
9. LPG used for domestic consumption smells even though it is an odourless gas.
Write the following questions given below
A
What are the products obtained on destructive distillation of coal? Give one use
of each of the products.
B

What are three conditions necessary for combustion?

How is biogas prepared? What are the advantages of using biogas?

What are the various zones of a candle flame? Describe each of them in brief.

How does a soda acid fire extinguisher work?

F label the following for the fractional distillation of petroleum