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  • A. A mixture of Na2CO3 and As2O3
  • B. K2SO4
  • C. A mixture of K2CO3 and As2O3
  • D. Na2SO4

Explanation: Vetrocoke liquor is an alkaline potassium carbonate solution promoted with arsenic oxide, represented as a mixture of K2CO3 and As2O3.

Correct answer: A mixture of K2CO3 and As2O3
  • A. Claude
  • B. Fauser-Montecatini
  • C. Uhde
  • D. Kellogg

Explanation: The Claude ammonia converter uses its catalyst as one continuous bed. Other listed converter designs commonly divide the catalyst into…

Correct answer: Claude
  • A. Calcium nitrate
  • B. Urea
  • C. Calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN)
  • D. Ammonium sulphate

Explanation: Urea contains about 46% nitrogen, higher than calcium nitrate, CAN, or ammonium sulphate.

Correct answer: Urea
  • A. Acetic acid
  • B. Aluminium chloride
  • C. Sulphuric acid
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Sulfuric acid acidulates phosphate rock to produce single superphosphate, containing monocalcium phosphate and gypsum.

Correct answer: Sulphuric acid
  • A. Steam reforming
  • B. Thermal cracking
  • C. Partial oxidation
  • D. Hydrogenation

Explanation: Natural gas, mainly methane, reacts with steam over a catalyst to form hydrogen and carbon monoxide, followed by shift conversion to…

Correct answer: Steam reforming
  • A. NH2.CO.NH2
  • B. NH2CONHCONH2
  • C. NH3.COO.NH3
  • D. NH4COONH2

Explanation: Biuret forms when two urea units condense with loss of ammonia, giving the structure NH2CONHCONH2.

Correct answer: NH2CONHCONH2
  • A. Meta-phosphoric acid
  • B. None of these
  • C. No change in it
  • D. Pyrophosphoric acid

Explanation: On heating, two molecules of orthophosphoric acid condense with loss of water to form pyrophosphoric acid, H4P2O7.

Correct answer: Pyrophosphoric acid
  • A. Stems & leaves during early stage of plant growth
  • B. Starches of potatoes & grains
  • C. Sugar of fruits & vegetables
  • D. Fibrous materials of plants

Explanation: Potassium supports starch formation, sugar production and fibre development, but early stem and leaf growth is mainly promoted by…

Correct answer: Stems & leaves during early stage of plant growth
  • A. 43% N2 and 13% P2O5
  • B. 13% N2 and 43% P2O5
  • C. 43% N2 and 13% K2O
  • D. 43% K2O and 43% P2O5

Explanation: A base suspension fertiliser is commonly specified approximately as 13% nitrogen and 43% P2O5.

Correct answer: 13% N2 and 43% P2O5
  • A. NO2
  • B. KNO3
  • C. N2
  • D. NHO3

Explanation: The nitrogen value of a fertiliser is conventionally reported as the equivalent percentage of nitrogen, written here as N2 in the options.

Correct answer: N2
  • A. 25-28
  • B. > 98
  • C. 75-80
  • D. 52-54

Explanation: Triple superphosphate is made by reacting phosphate rock with relatively concentrated orthophosphoric acid, commonly about 52 to 54%.

Correct answer: 52-54
  • A. Stengel
  • B. Haber's
  • C. Le-chatelier's
  • D. Du-pont's

Explanation: The Stengel process produces ammonium nitrate by reacting ammonia with nitric acid in the vapour phase.

Correct answer: Stengel
  • A. Catalytic
  • B. Endothermic
  • C. Exothermic
  • D. Autocatalytic

Explanation: Ammonia neutralisation with nitric acid releases substantial heat because ammonium nitrate and water form from the acid-base reaction.

Correct answer: Exothermic
  • A. None of these
  • B. Superphosphate
  • C. White phosphorous
  • D. Ortho-phosphoric acid

Explanation: Concentrated sulphuric acid attacks phosphate rock in the wet process, producing ortho-phosphoric acid along with calcium sulphate.

Correct answer: Ortho-phosphoric acid
  • A. Calcium nitrate
  • B. Ammonium nitrate
  • C. None of these
  • D. Calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN)

Explanation: Nitrolime is calcium ammonium nitrate, commonly abbreviated CAN, and is made by combining ammonium nitrate with a limestone or dolomite…

Correct answer: Calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN)
  • A. Ortho
  • B. Pyro
  • C. Meta
  • D. None of these

Explanation: H3PO4 is ortho-phosphoric acid, the normal and most stable form of phosphoric acid.

Correct answer: Ortho
  • A. Platinum-beryllium
  • B. Cobalt-molybdenum
  • C. Platinum-rhodium
  • D. Platinum-molybdenum

Explanation: Ammonia is oxidised to nitric oxide in the Ostwald process over a platinum-rhodium gauze catalyst.

Correct answer: Platinum-rhodium
  • A. Urea
  • B. CAN
  • C. Superphosphate
  • D. Ammonium sulphate

Explanation: Coke-oven gas contains ammonia, which can be recovered by absorption in sulphuric acid to produce ammonium sulphate.

Correct answer: Ammonium sulphate
  • A. Ammonium carbamate
  • B. Biuret
  • C. Ammonium carbonate
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Urea manufacture first forms ammonium carbamate from ammonia and carbon dioxide, which then dehydrates to urea and water.

Correct answer: Ammonium carbamate
  • A. Nickel
  • B. Reduced iron oxide
  • C. Vanadium pentoxide
  • D. Silica gel

Explanation: The Haber process uses an iron catalyst, generally prepared by reducing promoted magnetite or iron oxide to active iron.

Correct answer: Reduced iron oxide