All about GAS!
GASSY GOSSIPS
GREEN HOUSE GAS
CO2 Carbon dioxide whose carbon part helps the plant to synthesise their own food glucose or other sugar/ carbohydrate. But when the amount of this carbon with 2 atoms of oxygen (CO2) gets scaled up in the atmosphere it acts as the same as the glasses of a car acts when parked in scorching sun. Its allows the heat of the sun to enter the earth and halts it from reflecting back. Thus raising the temperature and heating the earth all over the globe coined global warming
OZONE GAS
O3 Ozone is a naturally occurring layer of tri-oxygen molecule that surrounds the earth’s atmosphere and hinders the entrance of harmful ultra violet radiation of the sun. Ozone hole or ozone depletion means breaking of O3 into diatomic oxygen O2 due the CFC’s (chloro floro carbons). CFC’s are the molecules of carbon with fluorine and chlorine and are major air pollutant. Can you think of some way to reverse reaction to mend the ozone puncture?????
LAUGHING GAS
N2O Nitrous oxide. It is used as an oxidizer in a rocket motor. In racing vehicle it allows the engine to burn more fuel by providing more oxygen. It is also used as food additive. Also used for anaesthesia in dentistry.
TEAR GAS
CS gas -2chlorobenzalmelononitrile, stimulate the corneal nerves in the eye to cause tears. CR gas- dibenzoxazepine
HUMAN EXCRETORY GAS
NH3 Ammonia is the major excretory human product. It has got pungent smell and is very soluble in water. That’s why you are asked to flush everytime you use toilets.
LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS (LPG)
Leakage of domestic gas from the cylinder???? Oh yeah… you could sense. But it is not the same gas you burn while cooking. The smell is of 2-mercaptoethanol or thioglycol or ethyl mercaptan. LPG is simply Propane or Butane which are flammable hydrocarbon gasses.
NOBLE GAS
He Helium, Ne Neon, Ar Argon, Kr Krypton and Xe Xenon
No, these are not those fortunate noble laureate gases. These gases don’t talk , don’t react. These are never ON but still their names culminate with the word “ON”. Strange but true. Hence termed Non reactive gases of chemistry world.
BIOGAS
Biogas= gas formed by life, here life refers to living anaerobic microbes which acts upon organic waste and convert it into mixture of gases such as methane CH4,carbon dioxide CO2 , small amount of hydrogen sulphide H2S and thus called Biogas that could be used for domestic purpose . What a great eco-friendly contribution done by microscopic community !! isn’t it !
LIFE GAS
Plants know how to pay back all your efforts you make when you water them. The mixture of oxygen and hydrogen (don’t get confuse. It means WATER) that you give them regularly helps plants in the formation of their food and releases the same oxygen that you have given them but in the form of mixture. See….!! How truthful friends they are!! No greediness of keeping the remnant oxygen with themselves …. Give water and take life. How simple is that.
NITROGEN GAS
78% of earths atmosphere is occupied by nitrogen gas. How common GK point is that!!Nitrogen gas is there when you open a sealed packed of processed food. It acts as a preservative. It doesn’t support burning. It is required by our cells to make DNA. Nitrogen is one of the macronutrient for plants. Fertilisers are nothing but derived products of nitrogen.
POISONOUS GAS
CO carbon monoxide – has high affinity for iron present in haemoglobin present in blood. Thus causes death. Phosgene COCl2 chemical weapon used during world war 1, it is also used in production of isocynate example -methyl isocynate ,causative agent in bhopal disaster.
COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS (CNG)
Common fuel being used by public transport in these polluted days and nights. But which gas is compressed? It is a ,marshy gas found commonly in marshy land .CH4 Methane. One carbon with four hydrogen atoms.
REACTIVE GAS
A non metal is entitled with most reactive gas of chemistry villa. Fluorine, One of the Non metal of the chemical world has got the property of being most reactive gas i.e Fluorine followed by chlorine, bromine than iodine.
GREEN HOUSE GAS
CO2 Carbon dioxide whose carbon part helps the plant to synthesise their own food glucose or other sugar/ carbohydrate. But when the amount of this carbon with 2 atoms of oxygen (CO2) gets scaled up in the atmosphere it acts as the same as the glasses of a car acts when parked in scorching sun. Its allows the heat of the sun to enter the earth and halts it from reflecting back. Thus raising the temperature and heating the earth all over the globe coined global warming
OZONE GAS
O3 Ozone is a naturally occurring layer of tri-oxygen molecule that surrounds the earth’s atmosphere and hinders the entrance of harmful ultra violet radiation of the sun. Ozone hole or ozone depletion means breaking of O3 into diatomic oxygen O2 due the CFC’s (chloro floro carbons). CFC’s are the molecules of carbon with fluorine and chlorine and are major air pollutant. Can you think of some way to reverse reaction to mend the ozone puncture?????
LAUGHING GAS
N2O Nitrous oxide. It is used as an oxidizer in a rocket motor. In racing vehicle it allows the engine to burn more fuel by providing more oxygen. It is also used as food additive. Also used for anaesthesia in dentistry.
TEAR GAS
CS gas -2chlorobenzalmelononitrile, stimulate the corneal nerves in the eye to cause tears. CR gas- dibenzoxazepine
HUMAN EXCRETORY GAS
NH3 Ammonia is the major excretory human product. It has got pungent smell and is very soluble in water. That’s why you are asked to flush everytime you use toilets.
LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS (LPG)
Leakage of domestic gas from the cylinder???? Oh yeah… you could sense. But it is not the same gas you burn while cooking. The smell is of 2-mercaptoethanol or thioglycol or ethyl mercaptan. LPG is simply Propane or Butane which are flammable hydrocarbon gasses.
NOBLE GAS
He Helium, Ne Neon, Ar Argon, Kr Krypton and Xe Xenon
No, these are not those fortunate noble laureate gases. These gases don’t talk , don’t react. These are never ON but still their names culminate with the word “ON”. Strange but true. Hence termed Non reactive gases of chemistry world.
BIOGAS
Biogas= gas formed by life, here life refers to living anaerobic microbes which acts upon organic waste and convert it into mixture of gases such as methane CH4,carbon dioxide CO2 , small amount of hydrogen sulphide H2S and thus called Biogas that could be used for domestic purpose . What a great eco-friendly contribution done by microscopic community !! isn’t it !
LIFE GAS
Plants know how to pay back all your efforts you make when you water them. The mixture of oxygen and hydrogen (don’t get confuse. It means WATER) that you give them regularly helps plants in the formation of their food and releases the same oxygen that you have given them but in the form of mixture. See….!! How truthful friends they are!! No greediness of keeping the remnant oxygen with themselves …. Give water and take life. How simple is that.
NITROGEN GAS
78% of earths atmosphere is occupied by nitrogen gas. How common GK point is that!!Nitrogen gas is there when you open a sealed packed of processed food. It acts as a preservative. It doesn’t support burning. It is required by our cells to make DNA. Nitrogen is one of the macronutrient for plants. Fertilisers are nothing but derived products of nitrogen.
POISONOUS GAS
CO carbon monoxide – has high affinity for iron present in haemoglobin present in blood. Thus causes death. Phosgene COCl2 chemical weapon used during world war 1, it is also used in production of isocynate example -methyl isocynate ,causative agent in bhopal disaster.
COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS (CNG)
Common fuel being used by public transport in these polluted days and nights. But which gas is compressed? It is a ,marshy gas found commonly in marshy land .CH4 Methane. One carbon with four hydrogen atoms.
REACTIVE GAS
A non metal is entitled with most reactive gas of chemistry villa. Fluorine, One of the Non metal of the chemical world has got the property of being most reactive gas i.e Fluorine followed by chlorine, bromine than iodine.
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