This category focuses on the real-world applications of d and f block elements, including their roles in industries, technology, and everyday products. It helps students understand their practical significance in chemistry.
Transition metals are not used as inert electrodes - Pt is used but it's not inert.
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2KMnO 4 → K 2 MnO 4 + MnO 2 + O 2 (thermal decomposition at ~513K).
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Interstitial compounds have high melting points, not low melting points.
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Lanthanoids are used in alloys, catalysts, and phosphors, but not as primary structural materials.
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Pt-Rh gauze is used as a catalyst in the Ostwald process for NH 3 oxidation.
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Finely divided iron (Fe) catalyzes the reaction: N 2 + 3H 2 → 2NH 3 .
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Transition metals form interstitial compounds, not intermetallic compounds (alloys are different).
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Strong metallic bonding due to involvement of d-electrons in bonding.
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Transition metals and their compounds are used as catalysts, pigments, and in alloy formation. While platinum is used as an inert electrode in many electrochemical setups, the option 'inert electrodes' may be considered not primary/general for most transition metals.
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Chromium (Cr) has the highest melting point in the 3d series due to half-filled 3d 5 4s 1 configuration providing extra stability.
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Positive E° indicates Cu cannot displace H 2 from acids, as it is less reactive than hydrogen.
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PdCl 2 (with CuCl 2 ) is used as catalyst in the Wacker process.
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