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Acids, Bases and Salts54 questionsChemical Bonding10 questionsChemical Kinetics4 questionsChemical Reactions2 questionsChemical Reactions and Equations16 questionsChemistry in Everyday Life24 questionsCombustion and Flame12 questionsCoordination Compounds2 questionsElectrochemistry5 questionsEnvironmental Chemistry7 questionsMetallurgy13 questionsMetals and Non-metals3 questionsMetals, Non-metals and Alloys22 questionsOrganic Chemistry94 questionsPeriodic Table58 questionsPolymers3 questionsSolutions15 questionsSome Basic Concepts of Chemistry7 questionsStates of Matter22 questionsStructure of Atom48 questionsSurface Chemistry2 questions

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951 was awarded jointly to Edwin Mattison McMillan and ______ for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium…

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In which year did Louis Pasteur report his foundational work separating mirror-image tartrate crystals, helping establish modern stereochemistry?

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Which chemist collaborated with Christopher Ingold on the 1937 studies of reaction kinetics and nucleophilic substitution of alkyl halides?

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In the 1920s, who created the Left-Step Periodic Table (LSPT) of the chemical elements, basing the positions of the elements on patterns in the…

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Who was credited with discovering the hydrogen isotope, or heavy hydrogen, for which he later received the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

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Who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Georg Wittig for developing boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, as reagents in organic synthesis?

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Assertion (A): Berthelot was among the nineteenth-century pioneers of artificial organic synthesis. Reason (R): Lavoisier proved that organic compounds could not be synthesised from…

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In which year did Langmuir reform the Lewis concept by abandoning the idea of a stable cubical arrangement of the octet and introducing the…

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Who discovered three chemical elements: cerium, thorium and selenium, and devised the modern method by which one or two letters are used to symbolize…

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Which Swiss chemist proposed coordination theory in 1893 to explain bonding and structures in coordination compounds?

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In which year did Lavoisier and his collaborators publish Méthode de nomenclature chimique?

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Who discovered that diborane reacts with aldehydes and ketones to produce dialkoxyboranes, which are hydrolysed by water to produce alcohols?

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Which scientist is associated with the 4n+2 π-electron rule for aromaticity in suitable planar, cyclic, conjugated systems?

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Which electronegativity scale, associated with work published in 1932, assigns fluorine the highest value, commonly rounded to 4.0?

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Which pair presented an electron-pair account relating molecular geometry to valence-shell electron arrangements in 1940?

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With which scientist did William Ramsay show in 1894 that air also contained an element unknown until then, which was named Argon?

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Which pair further developed the electron-pair repulsion model of molecular geometry in 1957?

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Which listed pair published the 1933 work on the peroxide effect in adding hydrogen bromide to unsaturated compounds?

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Which form of carbon was discovered in 1985 through work by a team including Robert F. Curl, Harold W. Kroto and Richard E. Smalley?

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Which listed law was expressed in Lavoisier’s1789 Elements of Chemistry as the equality of the quantity of matter before and after a chemical operation?

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Which scientist formulated the gas-solubility relation expressed in the concentration convention C = kPgas at fixed temperature?

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Which compound was synthesized by Friedrich Wöhler in 1828, demonstrating that organic substances could be produced from inorganic materials and thereby challenging the vital…

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J. Chadwick discovered which of the following subatomic particles in the year 1932?

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Who received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on inert gaseous elements in air and their place in the periodic system?

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