General Science Quiz 48: Chemistry Quiz

General Science Quiz 48: Chemistry Quiz

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1. The tendency of similar particles to cling to one another is called?

Adhesion
Cohesion
Galling
Lubrication

2. Mead is an alcoholic beverage created by the fermentation of

Honey
Grapes
Barley
Mango

3. Michael Faraday had worked as a Chemical Assistant under one of the world renowned scientists. Can you name the scientist?

Albert Einstein
Earnest Rutherfordq
James Clerk Maxwell
Humphry Davy

4. Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993, for the invention of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique?

Rudolph A Marcus
Richard R Ernst
Robert Koch
Kary Mullis

5. Name the chemical element first isolated in 1774 by the Swedish chemist Johan Gottlieb Gahn

Zinc
Magnesium
Uranium
Manganese

6. Which chemical elemets got its name from Greek word meaning "light bearer" because it emits a faint glow when exposed to oxygen?

Phosphorus
Sulfur
Aluminium
Zinc

7. Name the widely used food preservative from the following

Sodium benzoate
Potassium permanganate
Sulfur trioxide
Sodium hypochlorite

8. Which one of the following is used in car batteries?

Hydrochloric acid
Sulfuric acid
Acetic acid
Boric acid

9. The colour of urine generally ranges from pale-yellow to deep amber. Name the pigment that gives the yellow color to utineq

Bilirubin
Urochrome
Melanin
Zeaxanthin

10. Who is credited with the invention of nylon?

Wallace Carothers
Leo Baekeland
Walter Hunt
Alexander Parkes

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