Quiz #1 Inorganic Chemistry

Ammoniated mercury is also known as:

• calomel

• corrosive sublimate

• lunar caustic

• white precipitate

This element is used as a glucose tolerance factor:

• Cr

• Si

• K

• Co

Plaster of Paris is chemically:

• CaO

• CaSO₄

• CaSO₄.1 1/2H₂O

• (CaSO₄)2 H₂O

The major side effect from the use of barium sulfate suspension as radiopaque is:

• diarrhea

• constipation

• vomiting

• dizziness

Besides activated charcoal and tannic acid, the other component of universal antidote is:

• MgO

• MgCO₃

• Mg₃(PO₄)₂

• Mg(OH)₂

This element is present in insulin:

• Cu

• Fe

• Mg

• Zn

Mineral chameleon is the synonym of the powerful oxidizing agent:

• NaI

• KMnO₄

• MnO₂

• KNO₃

Bordeaux mixture used as fungicide contains:

• selenium sulfide

• magnesium sulfate

• cupric sulfate

• cupric sulfate

Calomel is:

• HgCl

• HgCl₂

• stannous fluoride

• ZnCl

Electrolyte replenisher in dehydration:

• sodium iodide

• potassium iodide

• sodium bromide

• sodium chloride