BORON FAMILY [BC]

1. Name the members of boron family?

2. Arrange the members of boron family in order of ionization energy?
3. Arrange the members of boron family in order of melting point and
boiling point?
4. Arrange the members of boron family in order of metallic
character?
5. What is the shape of allotropic forms of boron? Explain in detail.
6. What is the structure of Al, In and Tl?
7. What happens when B and Al reacts with oxygen?
8. What is the action of water on boron?
9. What is the action of water on Al, Ga, In?
10. What is the action of conc. H2SO4 and HNO3 on B?
11. What is the action of conc. H2SO4 and HNO3 on Al?
12. What is the action of NaOH on B and Al in presence of water?
13. Give reaction of B and Al with N2?
14. Give reaction of B and Al with C?
15. Give reaction of B and Al with Mg?
16. Arrange trivalent cations of boron family in order of stability?
17. Arrange monovalent cations of boron family in order of stability?
18. Which member of boron family has highest melting point?
19. What is the chemical formula of tincal, colemanite, kernite, boric
acid?
20. How will you extract boron from colemanite?
21. What happens when boric acid is heated?
22. How will you prepare borax from colemanite?
23. How will you prepare B from BBr3?
24. How will you prepare B from BI3?
25. How will you obtain B from diborane?
26. What are the two allotropic form of boron?
27. What are the properties of crystalline boron?
28. Explain the structure of diborane?
29. What are the uses of B2H6?
30. How will you prepare diborane from boron halides?
31. How will you prepare diborane from Mg3B2?
32. What are the general characters of diborane?
33. What happens when diborane is treated with Na-amalgam?
34. What happens when diborane is heated to 7000C?
35. Why does diborane reacts with CO, ether and amines?
36. Name the compounds which cause symmetrical cleavage with
diborane?
37. Name the compounds which cause unsymmetrical cleavage with
diborane?
38. What happens when diborane is heated in air?
39. What is the action of water on diborane?
40. What is the action of ammonia on diborane?

41. What is orthoboric acid?

42. Why H3BO3 is not titrated satisfactorily with NaOH?
43. What happens when boric acid is heated to 100 0C?
44. What is the formula of metaboric acid?
45. How will you convert metaboric acid to tetraboric acid?
46. What happens when tetraboric acid is red heated?
47. How will you prepare sodium peroxyborate?
48. What is the use of sodium peroxyborate?
49. What is borax?
50. What is jewellers boran?
51. What is boron glass?
52. How will you prepare borax from colemanite?
53. Give the reaction of NaBO2 with CO2?
54. What are the uses of borax?
55. What is the action of heat on borax?
56. What do you mean by borax bead?
57. What happens when borax is heated to 7400C?
58. What happens when CuO is heated with B2O3?
59. What is the color of metaborates of following metals: Cu, Fe, Co,
Ni and Cr?
60. Why borax is used as buffer?
61. What is corundom?
62. How will you obtain Al2O3 from aluminium hydroxide and
aluminium sulphate?
63. Give the formula of alum?
64. How can you say that Al2O3 is amphoteric oxide?
65. How will you prepare aluminium carbide from Al 2O3?
66. What happens when aluminium carbide is treated with water?
67. What are the uses of corundom?
68. How will you prepare AlCl3 from Al and Al2O3?
69. What are alums? Give their general formula?
70. Give the formula of potash alum, ammonium alum, chrome alum
and ferric alum?
71. What are the uses of alums?