Chemistry

Chemistry in Everyday Life

Question:

What is the medicinal use of narcotic drugs?

Answer:

The narcotic drugs relieve pain and produce sleep. Therefore, these are commonly used for the relief of postoperative pain, cardiac pain and pain of terminal cancer and in child birth.

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Chemistry in Everyday Life

Q 1.

How are transparent soaps manufactured?

Q 2.

What are antiseptics?

Q 3.

Why do we need to classify drugs in different ways?

Q 4.

What is the basic difference between antiseptics and disinfectants?

Q 5.

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

Q 6.

Compounds with antiseptic properties are
(a) CHCl,   (b) CHI3
(c) Boric acid   (d) 0.3 ppm aqueous solution of Cl2

Q 7.

What is a soft soap?

Q 8.

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 9.

Sodium salts of some acids are Very useful as food preservatives. Suggest a few such acids.

Q 10.

What are the functions performed by histamine in the body?

Q 11.

Name an artificial sweetener which is derivative of sucrose.

Q 12.

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

Q 13.

What is the average molecular mass of drugs?

Q 14.

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

Q 15.

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

Q 16.

What is the side product of soap industry? Give reactions showing soap formation.

Q 17.

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

Q 18.

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

Q 19.

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

Q 20.

Which type of drugs come under antimicrobial drugs?

Q 21.

What is the advantage of using antihistamines over antacids in the treatment of acidity?

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

Write the chemical equation for preparing sodium soap from glyceryl oleate and glyceryl palmitate. Structures of these compounds are given below:
(i)(C15H31COO)3C3H5-Glyceryl palmitate
(ii)(C17H32COO)3C3H5-Glyceryl oleate

Q 24.

Explain the cleansing action of soaps.

Q 25.

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

Q 26.

Aspirin is pain relieving antipyretic drug but can be used to prevent heart attack. Explain.

Q 27.

What is the medicinal use of narcotic drugs?

Q 28.

What are antagonistic drugs?

Q 29.

Match the class of compounds given in Column I with their functions given in Column II.
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Q 30.

Assertion (A): Chemical messenger gives message to the cell without entering the cell.
Reason (R): Chemical messenger is received at the binding site of receptor proteins.

Q 31.

Define the term chemotherapy.

Q 32.

Define the term chemotherapy.

Q 33.

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

Q 34.

How are synthetic detergents better than soaps?

Q 35.

Which of the following are sulpha drugs?
(a) Sulphapyridine (b) Prontosil
(c) Salvarsan (d) Nardil

Q 36.

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

Q 37.

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

Q 38.

What is the mode of action of antimicrobial drugs?

Q 39.

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

Q 40.

Assertion (A): Sulpha drug contain sulphonamide group.
Reason (R): Salvarsan is a sulpha drug.

Q 41.

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

Q 42.

Why do we require artificial sweetening agents?

Q 43.

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

Q 44.

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

Q 45.

What are the main constituents of dettol?

Q 46.

Which of the following statements are incorrect about receptor proteins?
(a) Majority of receptor proteins are embedded in the cell membranes.
(b) The active site of receptor proteins opens on the inside region of the cell.
(c) Chemical messengers are received at the binding sites of receptor proteins.
(d) Shape of receptor does not change during attachment of messenger.

Q 47.

If soap has high alkali content it’irritates skin. How can the amount of excess alkali be determined? What can be the source of excess alkali?

Q 48.

Hair shampoos belong to which class of synthetic detergent?

Q 49.

What is the scientific explanation for the feeling of depression?

Q 50.

What is the medicinal use of narcotic drugs?