Practical Work Long Ans Class-10 Concise ICSE Chemistry Selina Solutions

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Practical Work Long Ans Class-10 Concise ICSE Chemistry Selina Solutions Chapter-13

Board ICSE
Book / Publication Concise / Selina
Subject Chemistry
Class 10th
Writer Dr SP Singh
Chapter-13 Practical Work
Topics Long Ans
Edition 2025-2026

Long Ans on Practical Work

Page-239

Que-1: When an ammonium salt is warmed with sodium hydroxide solution, ammonia gas is evolved. State three ways in which you could identify this gas.

Ans: The three ways to identify ammonia gas are:
(a) Ammonia gas turns moist red litmus turns blue.
(b) If a glass rod dipped in concentrated HCl is brought near the gas, dense white fumes of ammonium chloride are formed.
(c) The gas turns colourless Nessler’s reagent i.e. K2HgI4 potassium mercuric iodide brown.

Que-2: Give a chemical test to distinguish between

(a) Sodium chloride soln. and sodium nitrate soln.
(b) Hydrogen chloride gas and hydrogen sulphide gas
(c) Calcium nitrate soln. and zinc nitrate soln.
(d) Carbon dioxide gas and sulphur dioxide gas
(e) Sodium carbonate and sodium sulphite
(f) Ferrous nitrate and lead nitrate.
(g) Manganese dioxide and copper (Il) oxide.
(h) Sodium nitrate and sodium sulphite [using dilute sulphuric acid].
(i) Sodium chloride and sodium sulphide
(j) Sodium hydroxide solution and ammonium hydroxide solution.
(k) Ammonium sulphate and sodium sulphate.
(l) Sulphuric acid from nitric acid and hydrochloric acid.
(m) Magnesium chloride and magnesium nitrate solution
(n) Zinc sulphate solution and zinc chloride solution
(o) Iron (II) chloride soln. and iron (III) chloride soln.
(p) Calcium nitrate soln. and calcium chloride soln.

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Ans:

(a) Add silver nitrate solution to both solutions. Sodium chloride will form a curdy white ppt., whereas sodium nitrate will not undergo any reaction.
(b) Hydrogen chloride gas gives thick white fumes of ammonium chloride when a glass roddippedin ammonia solution is held near the vapour of the acid, whereas no white fumes are observed in case of hydrogen sulphide gas.
(c) Calcium nitrate forms no ppt. even with addition of excess of NH4OH, whereas zinc nitrate forms a white gelatinous ppt. which dissolves in excess of NH4OH.
(d) Carbon dioxide gas has no effect on acidified KMnO4or K2Cr2O7, but sulphur dioxide turns potassium permanganate from pink to colourless.
(e) When dilute sulphuric acid is added to sodium carbonate and heated, colourless, odourless gas is evolved which turns lime water milky and has no effect on KMnO4 or K2Cr2O7 solutions.
When dil. sulphuric acid is added to sodium sulphite and heated, colourless gas with suffocating odour is evolved which turns lime water milky. It turns acidified K2Cr2O7 from orange to clear green and pink coloured KMnO4 to clear colourless.
Therefore, the two compounds can be distinguished.
(f) When NaOH is added to each of the compounds, a dirty green precipitate of Iron [II] hydroxide [Fe(OH)2] is formed in case of Ferrous nitrate whereas a chalky white precipitate of lead hydroxide [Pb(OH)2] is formed in case of lead nitrate. Iron [II] Hydroxide [Fe(OH)2] is insoluble in excess of NaOH, whereas Lead Hydroxide [Pb(OH)2] is soluble in excess of NaOH. Hence, the two compounds can be distinguished.
(g) When each of the compound is heated with conc. hydrochloric acid, greenish yellow (chlorine) gas is evolved in case of manganese dioxide and filtrate is brownish in colour whereas, no chlorine gas is evolved in case of copper (II) oxide and filtrate is bluish in colour.
MnO2 + 4HCl ⟶ MnCl2 + 2H2O + Cl2
CuO + 2HCl ⟶ CuCl2 + H2O
(h) Sodium nitrate will not react with dilute sulphuric acid.
Sodium sulphite reacts with dil. sulphuric acid and colourless gas with suffocating odour is evolved which turns lime water milky.
(i) When dil. sulphuric acid is added to sodium sulphide and heated, hydrogen sulphide gas is evolved which has the smell of rotten eggs and turns lead acetate paper black.
Whereas, when conc. sulphuric acid is added to sodium chloride and heated, HCl gas is evolved which gives dense white fumes when a glass rod dipped in ammonia is brought near it.
(j) When ammonium hydroxide is reacted with a solution of copper sulphate, a pale blue ppt. of copper hydroxide is formed which dissolves in excess of ammonium hydroxide forming a deep blue solution of a soluble complex salt [Cu(NH3)4]SO4 [tetramine copper [II] sulphate] .
CuSO4 + 2NH4OH ⟶ (NH4)2SO4 + Cu(OH)2 ↓
Cu(OH)2 + (NH4)2SO4 + 2NH4OH ⟶ [Cu(NH3)4]SO4 + 4H2O
Hence, when copper sulphate is added to sodium hydroxide solution, pale blue ppt. of copper hydroxide is obtained which is insoluble in excess of sodium hydroxide.
CuSO4 + 2NaOH ⟶ Na2SO4 + Cu(OH)2 ↓
(k) When ammonium sulphate is heated with NaOH, ammonia gas is produced which turns red litmus blue whereas, sodium sulphate does not react with sodium hydroxide.
(NH4)2SO4 + 2NaOH ⟶ Na2SO4 + 2H2O + 2NH3
Na2SO4 + NaOH ⟶ no reaction.
(l) Barium chloride reacts with dil H2SO4 to form a white ppt. of barium sulphate.
BaCl2 + H2SO4 [dil.] ⟶ 2HCl + BaSO4 ↓ [white ppt.]
Whereas, HCl and nitric acid does not form a white ppt.
BaCl2 + HCl ⟶ No white ppt.
(m) Add silver nitrate solution to the given solns., magnesium chloride reacts to form a white ppt of silver chloride (AgCl). Whereas, magnesium nitrate show no reaction with silver nitrate. Hence, they can be distinguished using silver nitrate.
MgCl2 + 2AgNO3 ⟶ 2AgCl↓ + Mg(NO3)2
(n) When BaCl2 soln. is added to ZnSO4, a white ppt. of BaSO4 is formed, whereas, no ppt. is formed in case of ZnCl2. Hence, the two solns. can be distinguished.
BaCl2 + ZnSO4 ⟶ BaSO4 ↓ [white ppt.] + ZnCl2
(o) When NaOH soln. is added to the given solns., FeCl2 reacts to form a dirty green ppt. of Fe(OH)2 whereas, FeCl3 reacts to form a reddish brown ppt. of Fe(OH)3.
(p) Add silver nitrate soln. to the given solns., calcium chloride reacts to form a white ppt. which is soluble in NH4OH and insoluble in dil. HNO3. The other soln. is calcium nitrate.
CaCl2 + 2AgNO3 ⟶ 2AgCl ↓ [white ppt.] + Ca(NO3)2

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