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Silver glance or argentite is the_________.

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  1. Sulphide ore of silver

  2. Carbonate ore of silver

  3. Halide ore of silver

  4. Silicate ore of silver

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Silver glance or argentite is the sulphide ore of silver.

Which of the following are halide ores?

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  1. Siderite

  2. Cryolite

  3. Fluorspar

  4. Iron pyrite

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Correct Option: B,C
Explanation:
Siderite: carbonate ore $FeCO _3$
Cryolite: Halide ore $Na _3AlF _6$
Fluorspar: Halide ore $CaF _2$
Iron pyrite : Sulphide ore $ FeS _2$

Which of the following are found in Earth's crust mainly as oxides, sulphides and carbonates?

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  1. Metals above in the activity series

  2. Metals in the middle of the activity series

  3. Metals at the bottom of the activity series

  4. All of these

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The metals at the bottom of the activity series are the least reactive. They are often found in a free state. For example, gold, silver, platinum and copper are found in the free state. Copper and silver are also found in the combined state as their sulphide or oxide ores. The metals at the top of the activity series $(K, Na, Ca, Mg$ and $Al)$ are so reactive that they are never found in nature as free elements. The metals in the middle of the activity series $ (Zn, Fe, Pb, etc.)$ are moderately reactive. They are found in the earth’s crust mainly as oxides, sulphides or carbonates. The ores of many metals are oxides. This is because oxygen is a very reactive element and is very abundant on the earth.

Blister copper is:

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  1. pure copper

  2. ore of copper

  3. alloy of copper

  4. impure copper

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Blister copper is an impure form of copper having a blister-like surface due to the release of gas during cooling. The purity of this product is 98%, it is known as blister because of the broken surface created by the escape of sulfur dioxide gas as blister copper pigs or ingots are cooled.

Silver can be separated from lead by:

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  1. fractional crystallization

  2. amalgamation

  3. cupellation

  4. addition of zinc

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:
The Parkes process is a pyrometallurgical industrial process for removing silver from lead during the production of bullion. It is an example of liquid–liquid extraction.
The process takes advantage of two liquid-state properties of zinc. The first is that zinc is immiscible with lead, and the other is that silver is 3000 times more soluble in zinc than it is in lead. When zinc is added to liquid lead that contains silver as a contaminant, the silver preferentially migrates into the zinc. Because the zinc is immiscible in the lead it remains in a separate layer and is easily removed. 

Statement: Valuable gemstones such as rubies and sapphire contain aluminium oxides along with traces of transition metals as impurities.


State whether the given statement is true or false.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Sapphire is a gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, an aluminium oxide. It is typically blue, but natural "fancy" sapphires also occur in yellow, purple, orange, and green colours.


The only colour which sapphire cannot be is red – as red-coloured corundum is called ruby. Rubies are crystalline forms of aluminium oxide, which are red due to the presence of chromium as an impurity.

A rare variety of natural sapphire, known as colour-change sapphire, exhibits different colours in a different light.

The colour-change effect is caused by the interaction of the sapphire, which absorbs specific wavelengths of light, and the light source, whose spectral output varies depending upon the illuminant.
Transition-metal impurities in the sapphire, such as chromium and vanadium, are responsible for the colour change.

Hence, the given statement is $\text{true}$

Aluminium metal is purified by:

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  1. Hoopes process

  2. Halls process

  3. Serpecks process

  4. Baeyers process

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

All processes are used in Aluminium metallurgy but the Hoopes process is a metallurgical process, used to obtain the aluminium metal of very high purity.
The Bayer process is the principal industrial means of refining bauxite to produce alumina (aluminium oxide).
The Hall–Héroult process is the major industrial process for smelting aluminium. 
Serpeck's process  is used for the purification of bauxite ore containing silica  as the main impurity

 Froth floatation process is used for the concentration of the ore of:

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  1. $Fe$

  2. $Al$

  3. $Cr$

  4. $S$

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Froth flotation is a process for selectively separating hydrophobic materials from hydrophilic.It has been described as "the single most important operation used for the recovery and upgrading of sulfide ores". 

The material mixed before ore is subjected for smelting in the extraction of iron are:

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  1. cake and silica

  2. coke and limestone

  3. limestone and silica

  4. coke, limestone and silika

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Smelting is a form of extraction metallurgy. Its main purpose is to get pure metal from th ore. Coke and limestone are added. Coke acts as an reducing agent and limestone acts as a flux. Concentrated ore of iron i.e. haemetite is used.

Which of the following non-metal is a good conductor of electricity?

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  1. Graphite

  2. Hydrogen

  3. Phosphorous

  4. Bromine

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Graphite is a non-metal. Generally, non-metals are bad conductors of electricity but graphite is an exception. Because the structure of graphite is in such a way that electrons can move freely and conduct electricity. Due to this property, it is used in making of pencil cells. 


Hence, the correct option is $A$