Visit nearby schools or college laboratory and collect information about some of the chemicals that are used in the laboratory. Answer the following a) How will you differentiable between organic and inorganic Chemicals? b) name the functional group present in ethanol c) Name the allotropic forms of carbon d) How will you differentiate between alcohols and carboxylic acids? e) how will you differentiate between saturated andunsaturted hydrocarbons f) CO2 is an organic or inorganic compound?
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a) The primary difference that lies between these organic compounds and inorganic compounds is that organic compounds always have a carbon atom while most of the inorganic compounds do not contain the carbon atom in them. Almost all the organic compounds contain carbon-hydrogen or a simple C-H bond in them.
b) Ethanol has functional group alcohol (-OH).
c)Diamond, graphite, and fullerenes (substances that include nanotubes and 'buckyballs', such as buckminsterfullerene) are three allotropes of pure carbon.
d) Carboxylic acid (like any other acid) turns blue litmus red. Alcohols do not respond to this test except phenol. Carboxylic acids on esterification give off a sweet smell.
e) Explanation: A saturated hydrocarbon is the hydrocarbon in which all its carbon-carbon bonds are single. ... An unsaturated hydrocarbon,however, is the one in which some carbon-carbon bonds can be double or triple. e.g alkenes like ethene have double bonds while alkynes like ethyne have triple bonds.
f) Compounds of carbon are classified as organic when carbon is bound to hydrogen. Carbon compounds such as carbides (e.g., silicon carbide [SiC2]), some carbonates (e.g., calcium carbonate [CaCO3]), some cyanides (e.g., sodium cyanide [NaCN]), graphite, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide are classified as inorganic.