DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL- BOPAL, AHMEDABAD

CLASS 9
ASSIGNMENT
IS MATTER AROUND US PURE?
1. What difference in the property of two miscible liquids enables their separation by fractional
distillation?

2. Why is solution not heated to dryness to get crystals during crystallisation?

3. Give one example each of homogeneous and heterogeneous mixture.
4. How can we check whether the given solid substance is pure or not?
5. What type of solution is an alloy? Explain your answer.
6. Which separation, technique is employed to separate complex mixture of organic compounds
like carbohydrates, amino acids. Vitamins, hormones, etc?

7. What is the solute and solvent in brass, tincture iodine and air?
8. How will you prepare 10% solution of glucose?
9. A solution contains 5 g of glucose in 45 g of water. Calculate the concentration of solution in
mass percentage.

10. Define solubility of a substance. How does it vary with temperature?

11. Why alloys are called as mixtures?
12. Classify the following into elements, compounds and mixtures.
(a) Sodium (b) Soil (c) Sugar solution
(d) Silver (e) Calcium carbonate (f) Tin

13. Classify the following as physical change or chemical change:

(a) Burning of magnesium ribbon in air
(b) Burning of sulphur in air
(c) Electrolysis of water
(d) Purification of copper sulphate from impure copper sulphate by crystallization
(e) Preparation of sugar solution
(f) Conversion of milk into curd
(g) Evaporation of alcohol
(h) Burning of coal

14. Complete the given table:

Properties Mixture of iron + Sulphur powder Compound formed by iron +
sulphur powder
Nature of the
substance
Action of magnet
Action of CS2
Action of acid
 15. Explain how will you separate the following mixtures?
(a) Sand and Sugar
(b) Sugar and Salt
(c) Sodium chloride and Sulphur without using water.
(d) Sand, Salt and Ammonium chloride
(e) Cream from milk
(f) Dyes present in black ink
(g) Water and Alcohol
(h) Oil and Water
(i) Salt, Kerosene and Water
(j) Common salt, Sulphur powder and Sand
(k) Iodine, Iron filings and Salt
(l) Chalk powder, Iron filings and Naphthalene.

16. If we put camphor in an open container, its amount keeps on decreasing due to the
phenomenon of:
(a) Evaporation
(b) Precipitation
(c) Condensation
(d) Sublimation

17. Heterogeneous mixture in which the solute particles do not dissolve and remain suspended
throughout the solvent and the solute particles can be seen with the naked eye is known as:
(a) Colloidal solution
(b) Super saturated solution
(c) Sublimation
(d) Suspensions

18. In tincture of iodine, find the solute and solvent?

(a) Alcohol is the solute and iodine is the solvent
(b) Iodine is the solute and alcohol is the solvent
(c) Any component can be considered as solute or solvent
(d) Tincture of iodine is not a solution

19. A pure substance which is made up of only one kind of atom and cannot be broken into two or
more simpler substances by physical or chemical means is referred to as:
(a) A compound
(b) An element
(c) A molecule
(d) A mixture

20. Which of the following property does not describe a compound?

(a) It is composed of two or more elements
(b) It is a pure substance.
(c) It cannot be separated into constituents by physical means
(d) It is mixed in any proportion by mass