Chemistry Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Chemistry is the study of the substances that make up matter. It looks at their properties, how they react with each other, and how these reactions can create new substances.

• Question 471: The brown fumes given off when trioxonitrate (V) acid is heated consist of ? Options:
  A) NO₂ and O₂
  B) H₂O and NO₂
  C) NO_2' O₂ and H₂O
  D) NO, NO₂ and H₂O
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 472: The scale of a chemical balance is made of iron plate and coated with copper electrolytically because Options:
  A) iron is less susceptible to corrosion than copper
  B) copper is twice as less susceptitible to corrosion as iron
  C) copper is less susceptible to corrosion than iron
  D) copper and iron are equally susceptible to corrosion
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 473: The gas that is removed by the water in the flask is Options:
  A) O ₂
  B) SO ₂
  C) HCI
  D) H ₂
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 474: Which of the gases is employed as an anaesthesia? Options:
  A) N ₂O
  B) NO₂
  C) NH₃
  D) NO
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 475:

  According to the kinetic theory of gases, the pressure exerted by a gas is due to

  Options:
  A) The vibrations of gas particles.
  B) The weight of the gas particles
  C) The attractive forces between gas particles
  D) The collisions of gas particles with the container walls
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 476:

  If one of the following oxides is heated with hydrogen or carbon using a bunsen burner. it is not reduced to the metal, Which one is it?

  Options:
  A) lead oxide
  B) Magnesium oxide
  C) Copper oxide
  D) Tin oxide
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 477: Which of the following solutions will conduct the least amount of electricity? Options:
  A) 2.00 M aqueous solution of NaOH
  B) 0.01 M aqueous solution of NaOH
  C) 0.01 M aqueous solution of hexanoic acid
  D) 0.01 M aqueous solution of sugar
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 478: Sulphur (IV)oxide is a strong reducing agent in the presence of water due to the formation of Options:
  A) hydroxide ion
  B) sulpgur (Vl)oxide
  C) hydrogen sulhide
  D) trioxosulphate (IV) salt
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 479:

  Which quantum divides shells into orbitals?

  Options:
  A) Spin
  B) Principal
  C) Azimuthal
  D) Magnetic
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 480:

  The sulphide that is commonly used in coating electric fluorescent tubes is?

  Options:
  A) iron(ii)Sulphide
  B) tin(ii)sulphide
  C) Zinc Sulphide
  D) lead(iv) Sulphide
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  The correct answer is C .