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Chem L1

The document contains a series of questions related to the properties and behaviors of gases, solids, and liquids, including diffusion, temperature scales, and phase changes. It explores concepts such as the spread of fragrance, the use of air in tires, and the cooling effects of perspiration and desert coolers. Additionally, it addresses specific phenomena like the properties of dry ice and the reasons for varying scents from hot and cold food.

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Chem L1

The document contains a series of questions related to the properties and behaviors of gases, solids, and liquids, including diffusion, temperature scales, and phase changes. It explores concepts such as the spread of fragrance, the use of air in tires, and the cooling effects of perspiration and desert coolers. Additionally, it addresses specific phenomena like the properties of dry ice and the reasons for varying scents from hot and cold food.

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Explain the following : When an incense stick is lighted in the corner of a room, its fragrance
spreads quickly in the entire room.
2. Why do gases have neither a fixed shape nor a fixed volume ?
3. Give reason for the following observation : The smell of hot sizzling food reaches us even from a
considerable distance but to get the smell from cold food, we have to go close to it.
4. Explain why : (a) air is used to inflate tyres. (b) steel is used to make railway lines
5. What is meant by ‘diffusion’ ? Give one example of diffusion in gases.
6. Write the relation between Kelvin scale and Celsius scale of temperature
7. What is the name of the process in which : (a) a solid turns directly into a gas ? (b) a gas turns
directly into a solid ?
8. Why is solid carbon dioxide known as dry ice ?
9. Why does steam cause more severe burns than boiling water ?
10. Explain why, naphthalene balls kept in stored clothes in our homes disappear over a period of
time.
11. How does perspiration or sweating help keep our body cool on a hot day ?
12. Why does a desert cooler cool better on a hot, dry day ?

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