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Answer:: Chapter 5: Combustion and Fossil Fuels

This chapter discusses combustion and fossil fuels. It defines the calorific value of a fuel as the amount of heat produced when one gram is completely burned. An ideal fuel is described as having a low ignition temperature, high calorific value, moderate combustion rate, cheap cost, easy transport and storage, and producing no pollution. Methane and LPG are identified as ideal domestic fuels due to their high calorific value and lack of smoke emissions. Fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum are explained as being formed over millions of years from the buried remains of ancient plants and organisms.

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Answer:: Chapter 5: Combustion and Fossil Fuels

This chapter discusses combustion and fossil fuels. It defines the calorific value of a fuel as the amount of heat produced when one gram is completely burned. An ideal fuel is described as having a low ignition temperature, high calorific value, moderate combustion rate, cheap cost, easy transport and storage, and producing no pollution. Methane and LPG are identified as ideal domestic fuels due to their high calorific value and lack of smoke emissions. Fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum are explained as being formed over millions of years from the buried remains of ancient plants and organisms.

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Chapter 5: Combustion and Fossil Fuels

Question 7:

What is a calorific value of a fuel? Write any four characteristics of an ideal fuel.
ANSWER:

The amount of heat produced in kilojoules when one gram of fuel is completely burnt is called
the calorific value of the fuel.
A fuel is said to be an ideal fuel if it fulfills the following characteristics:
(i) Ignition temperature should be low but well above the room temperature.
(ii) It should have high calorific value.
(iii) A moderate rate of combustion and should release heat in a controlled manner.
(iv) It should be cheap in cost and easily available.
(v) Easy to transport, safe to handle and store.
(vi) Produce a smokeless fire on burning and should not cause pollution.

Question 8:

Why are methane and LPG considered ideal for use as domestic fuels?
ANSWER:

Methane and LPG are considered to be ideal fuels for domestic use as they have high calorific
value. Apart from this, they do not emit any smoke during burning and therefore, do not cause
any pollution.
Question 9:

Differentiate between exhaustible and inexhaustible natural resources. Give two examples of
each.
ANSWER:
Exhaustible resources Inexhaustible resources

These are the natural resources These are the natural resources
whose reserves end up after which do not end, even after
continuous usage over a period of continuous usage over a period of
time. time.

Fossil fuels and forests are some Sunlight and wind are some
examples for exhaustible examples for inexhaustible
resources. resources.
Question 10:

What are fossil fuels? How were coal and petroleum formed?
ANSWER:
As the name indicates, the fossil fuels are the fuel resources which are formed due to the buried
remains of plants and animals over a period of million years. Examples of fossil fuels include
coal and petroleum.
Coal was formed when trees and plants that grew in humid, swampy areas died and got buried in
swampy soil, which were later covered by layers of the sediments for about 300-400 million
years.
Petroleum was also formed in a similar manner due to the burial of marine organisms which died
millions of years ago.

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