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MHT-CET Green Chemistry and Nanochemistry — practice questions

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Who is known as the father of green chemistry?Read the answer and worked solution →Green chemistry mainly aims to do which of the following?Read the answer and worked solution →Sustainable development meets present needs while doing what?Read the answer and worked solution →How many principles of green chemistry were enunciated by Anastas?Read the answer and worked solution →The first principle of green chemistry gives priority to which action?Read the answer and worked solution →In zero waste technology, the waste of one system is used as what?Read the answer and worked solution →Bottom ash from a thermal power station can serve as raw material for which industry?Read the answer and worked solution →Atom economy measures how many starting atoms end up where?Read the answer and worked solution →A reaction with good atom economy produces mostly what?Read the answer and worked solution →Product weight 137 u, total reactants 275 u. Atom economy is closest to?Read the answer and worked solution →The third principle asks that synthesis routes be designed to do what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which isomer of BHC is known as gammexane or lindane?Read the answer and worked solution →Designing safer chemicals mainly protects which group?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair replaces volatile halogenated solvents?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is described as a safe, benign solvent?Read the answer and worked solution →Which solvent is named as hazardous in contrast with water?Read the answer and worked solution →Adipic acid made enzymatically from glucose replaces which carcinogenic starting material?Read the answer and worked solution →Energy-efficient design prefers which conditions?Read the answer and worked solution →Which heating method is mentioned as a way to save energy in synthesis?Read the answer and worked solution →Biocatalysts help energy efficiency because they work under what?Read the answer and worked solution →Renewable feedstocks are preferably made from which kind of source?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is overuse of non-renewable feedstocks discouraged?Read the answer and worked solution →Reducing derivatives discourages unnecessary use of what?Read the answer and worked solution →Biocatalytic reactions often avoid derivatives because they do what?Read the answer and worked solution →What does a catalyst do in green chemistry?Read the answer and worked solution →Chemicals should be designed for what after use?Read the answer and worked solution →Why should food not be microwaved in plastic packaging?Read the answer and worked solution →Which plastic recycling number stands for PETE?Read the answer and worked solution →Plastic marked with recycle number 7 may contain which compound that is linked to heart disease?Read the answer and worked solution →Which plastic type is believed to leach styrene, a possible carcinogen, into food?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Who is known as the father of green chemistry?

  1. Norio Taniguchi
  2. Richard Feynman
  3. Eric Drexler
  4. Paul T. Anastas
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Correct answer: D. Paul T. Anastas

Paul T. Anastas, now at Yale, coined the concept and is called the father of green chemistry.

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Green chemistry mainly aims to do which of the following?

  1. Raise product yield at any cost
  2. Increase the use of volatile solvents
  3. Replace all organic reactions
  4. Reduce or eliminate hazardous substances
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Correct answer: D. Reduce or eliminate hazardous substances

Green chemistry designs products and processes that cut down the use or generation of hazardous substances.

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Sustainable development meets present needs while doing what?

  1. Halting all industrial progress
  2. Banning the use of all resources
  3. Protecting later generations' needs
  4. Raising fossil fuel consumption
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Correct answer: C. Protecting later generations' needs

The definition requires that present needs be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own.

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