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प्रश्न
What are organic compounds?
उत्तर १
The word ‘organic’ means pertaining to Life. When comparatively little chemistry was known, people thought that substances like sugar, starch, protein and acetic acid could be obtained only from living sources like plants and animals. So they called such substances organic compounds.
उत्तर २
The compounds of carbon are called organic compounds.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Name an organic compound which is consumed as a drink.
Which was the first organic compound synthesized in laboratory and by whom?
Give four differences between organic and inorganic cornpounds.
Fill in the blank:
Vital force theory was discarded by the synthesis of__________ in laboratory.
Write the equations to show what happens when ethyne gas reacts with
Bromine water
The list of some organic compounds is given below:
Ethanol, ethane, methane, ethyne and ethene
From the above list, name a compound:
Formed by the dehydration of ethanol by concentrated sulphuric acid.
Ethylene forms and addition product with chlorine. name this addition product and write its structural formula.
Define isomerism.
Identify the term or substance based on the descriptions given below:
The property by virtue of which the compound has the same molecular formula but different structural formulae.
Give the IUPAC name of the organic compound represented by the structural formula given below:
\[\begin{array}{cc}
\ce{H}\phantom{...}\ce{Cl}\phantom{..}\ce{H}\phantom{...}\ce{H}\phantom{...}\ce{H}\\
|\phantom{....}|\phantom{....}|\phantom{....}|\phantom{....}|\\
\ce{H - C - C - C - C - C - H}\\
|\phantom{....}|\phantom{....}|\phantom{....}|\phantom{....}|\\
\ce{H}\phantom{...}\ce{H}\phantom{...}\ce{Cl}\phantom{..}\ce{H}\phantom{...}\ce{H}\end{array}\]
