Chemistry

Chemistry in Everyday Life

Question:

Why is it safer to use soap from the environmental point of view?

Answer:

Soaps are biodegradable. The detergents are quite stable and are non- biodegradable because of branching in hydrocarbon chain hence cause water pollution. Therefore, it is safer to use soap from the environmental point of view.

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Chemistry in Everyday Life

Q 1.

How are transparent soaps manufactured?

Q 2.

Why do we need to classify drugs in different ways?

Q 3.

Which type of drugs come under antimicrobial drugs?

Q 4.

What is the basic difference between antiseptics and disinfectants?

Q 5.

What is the medicinal use of narcotic drugs?

Q 6.

What is a soft soap?

Q 7.

While antacids and antiallergic drugs interfere with the function of histamines, why do these not interfere with the function of each other?

Q 8.

What are biodegradable and non-biodegradable detergents? Give one example of each.

Q 9.

Which of the following statements are correct about barbiturates?
(a) Hypnotics or sleep producing agents.
(b) These are tranquilizers.
(c) Non-narcotic analgesics.
(d) Pain reducing without disturbing the nervous system.

Q 10.

Which of the following are anionic detergents?
(a) Sodium salts of sulphonated long chain alcohol.
(b) Ester of stearic acid and polyethylene glycol.
(c) Quaternary ammonium salt of amine with acetate ion.
(d) Sodium salts of sulphonated long chain hydrocarbons.

Q 11.

What is the difference between saccharin and saccharic acid?

Q 12.

Assertion (A): Receptor proteins show selectivity for one chemical messenger over the other.
Reason (R): Chemical messenger binds to the receptor site and inhibits its natural function.

Q 13.

Assertion (A): Preservative are added to food items.
Reason (R): Preservatives inhibit the growth of microorganisms.

Q 14.

Why should not medicines be taken without consulting doctors?

Q 15.

Veronal and Luminal are derivatives of barbituric acid which are ………….

Q 16.

Why is it safer to use soap from the environmental point of view?

Q 17.

What is the scientific explanation for the feeling of depression?

Q 18.

Define the term chemotherapy.

Q 19.

Which of the following are not used as food preservatives?
(a) Table salt (b) Sodium hydrogen carbonate
(c) Cane sugar (d) Benzoic acid

Q 20.

Which class of drugs is used in sleeping pills?

Q 21.

What are the functions performed by histamine in the body?

Q 22.

With the help of an example explain how do tranquilizers control the feeling of depression?

Q 23.

How are receptor proteins located in the cell membrane?

Q 24.

What happens when the bond formed between an enzyme and an inhibitor is a strong covalent bond?

Q 25.

In what respect do prontosil and Salvarsan resemble? Is there any resemblance between azo dye and prontosil? Explain.

Q 26.

Synthetic detergents have advantage over usual soaps as far as cleansing power is concerned. But use of synthetic detergents over a long time creates environmental pollution. How can the pollution caused by synthetic detergents be minimized? Classify the detergents according to their chemical nature.

Q 27.

What are enzyme inhibitors? Classify them on the basis of their mode of attachments on the active site of enzymes. With the help of diagrams explain how do inhibitors inhibit the enzymatic activity.
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Q 28.

Explain the term, target molecules or drug targets as used in medicinal chemistry.

Q 29.

What is meant by the term broad spectrum antibiotics? Explain.

Q 30.

How do antiseptics differ from disinfectants? Give one example of each.

Q 31.

Why is the use of aspartame limited to cold foods and drinks?

Q 32.

Name the sweetening agent used in the preparation of sweets for a diabetic patient.

Q 33.

What are antiseptics?

Q 34.

What is the harmful effect of hyperacidity?

Q 35.

What type of forces are involved in binding of substrate to the active site of enzyme?

Q 36.

How does the branching of hydrocarbon chain of synthetic detergents affect their biodegradability?

Q 37.

Between sodium hydrogen carbonate and magnesium hydroxide which is a better antacid and why?

Q 38.

What is the medicinal use of narcotic drugs?

Q 39.

Why are certain drugs called enzyme inhibitors?

Q 40.

Assertion (A): Receptors are crucial to body's communication process. Reason (R): Receptors are proteins.

Q 41.

Why do we require artificial sweetening agents?

Q 42.

Which of the following compounds are administered as ant-acids?
(a) Sodium carbonate (b)Sodium Hydrogen carbonate
(c)Aluminium carbonate (d)Magnism Hydroxide

Q 43.

Write the uses of medicines.

Q 44.

What are fillers and what role these fillers play in soap?

Q 45.

Match the soaps given in Column I with items given in Column II.
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Q 46.

Assertion (A): Chemical messengers are chemicals that enable communi ¬cation of message between two neutrons or between neurons and muscles. Reason (R): Chemicals enter the cell through receptor.

Q 47.

Assertion (A): Non-competitive inhibitor inhibits the catalytic activity of enzyme by binding with its active site.
Reason (R): Non-competitive inhibitors changes the shape of the active site in such a way that substrate cannot recognize it.

Q 48.

Sleeping pills are recommended by doctors to the patients suffering from sleeplessness but it is not advisable to take its doses without consultation with the doctor. Why?

Q 49.

Why are cimetidine and ranitidine better antacids than sodium hydrogencarbonate or magnesium or aluminium hydroxide?

Q 50.

What are the main constituents of dettol?