Chemistry Questions and Answers

The label on a reagent bottle containing a clear organic liquid dropped off.The liquid was neutral to litmus and gave a colourless gas with metallic sodium. The liquid must be an?

A cycloalkane with the molecular formula C₅H₁₀ has ?

Which of the following compounds gives a yellow residue when heated and also reacts with aqueous sodium hydroxide to give a white gelatinous precipitate soluble in excess sodium hydroxide solution?

To make coloured glasses, small quantities of oxides of metals which form coloured silicates are often added to the reaction mixture consisting of Na2CO3 and SiO2. Such a metals is a?.

Sodium hydroxide should be stored in properly closed containers because it?