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Encyclopaedia of Chemical Technology has been

A. Authored by Kirk Othmer

B. Edited by Perry and Chilton

C. Edited by Kirk Othmer

D. Authored by Perry and Chilton

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C. Edited by Kirk Othmer


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Which of the following is not the commercial name of poly-methyl-methacrylate (PMMA)?

A. Styrofoam

B. Lucite

C. Perspex

D. Plexiglass

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Insulation of liquid surface can be achieved by __________ on top of its surface.

A. Floating hollow polypropylene spheres

B. Spraying alumina powder

C. Putting cement

D. None of these

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Addition of small amount of __________ to grey cast iron is done to produce nodular grey cast iron.

A. Manganese

B. Phosphorous

C. Magnesium

D. Chromium

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When the wet steam is throttled but still remains wet at the exit of the throttle valve, then its temperature & dryness fraction respectively

A. Decreases & increases

B. Increases & increases

C. Increases & decreases

D. Decreases & decreases

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The behaviour of a metal specimen, which when plastically strained in tension reduces its yield stress in compression and vice versa; is termed as the

A. Work hardening

B. Bauschinger effect

C. Creeping effect

D. Stress recovery effect

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Which of the following material handling equipments is not suitable for moving materials in varying paths?

A. Hand trolley

B. Belt conveyor

C. Crane

D. Truck

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Limestone is added in the blast furnace (during pig iron manufacture) to

A. Form slag by combining with impurities

B. Supply heat by undergoing exothermic reaction with impurities

C. Reduce the coke consumption

D. Reduce slag viscosity

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A reduction in thermal resistance during heat transfer does not occur in the

A. Convection heat transfer by stirring the fluid and cleaning the heating surface

B. Conduction heat transfer by reduction in the material thickness and increase in the thermal conductivity

C. Radiation heat transfer by increasing the temperature and reducing the emissivity

D. None of these

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While the thermosetting polymers are amorphous in nature, the thermoplastic polymers are either amorphous or crystalline. The crystalline polymers are characterised by the

A. Low impact strength

B. High flexibility

C. Better finish and surface appearance

D. High plastic deformation

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Superheating of steam is done at constant

A. Enthalpy

B. Entropy

C. Pressure

D. Volume

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__________ of hard alloy and tool steel is done to make it easily machinable.

A. Case carburising

B. Tempering

C. Normalising

D. Annealing

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Plastics as a material of construction suffer from the drawback of low

A. Machinability

B. Density

C. Strength

D. Plastic deformation

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The following type of bonding is strongly directional in solids.

A. Vander Waal's

B. Ionic

C. Metallic

D. Covalent

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The approximate height of a blast furnace having a useful volume of 2000 m3 is about __________ metres

A. 25

B. 35

C. 55

D. 75

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Brass parts with high residual tensile stress at the surface are susceptible to season cracking (i.e. spontaneous cracking occuring on exposure to atmospheric corrosion), if its zinc percentage is more than

A. 5

B. 10

C. 20

D. 35

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The surface tension of a liquid, at critical temperature is

A. Indeterminate

B. Zero

C. Infinity

D. Same as that at any other temperature

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Constituents of stellite are

A. Zinc, copper & nickel

B. Cobalt, chromium & tungsten

C. Zinc, aluminium & nickel

D. Nickel, cobalt & vanadium

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Steel balls are manufactured by

A. Sintering

B. Casting

C. Cold heading

D. Spinning

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Which of the following is the correct nature of shear stress distribution along the cross section in a horizontal circular pipe under steady state fluid flow condition?

A.

B.

C.

D.

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At 100% relative humidity, the dew point temperature of moist air is

A. Less than the wet bulb temperature

B. More than the wet bulb temperature

C. Equal to the wet bulb temperature

D. Equal to the ambient temperature

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Coating thickness in case of galvanising of steel sheet generally corresponds to the deposition of __________ gms of zinc per of steel strip.

A. 5-10

B. 1000-1500

C. 120-500

D. 1500-3000

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Which of the following hardness tests does not measure the indentation hardness of metals and alloys?

A. Vickers hardness test

B. Shore scleroscope test

C. Brinell hardness test

D. Rockwell hardness test

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For which pair of the fuel gases, calorific value (C.V.) of one fuel is almost double that of the other on volume basis (i.e., kcal/Nm3) while the C.V. is same on weight basis (i.e., kcal/kg)?

A. Propane and acetylene

B. Propane and LPG

C. Sewage gas and gobar gas

D. B.F gas and coke oven gas

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Which of the following is an undesirable property of slag produced during the Pyrometallurgical method of metal extraction from its ore?

A. High fusibility & fluidity

B. High thermal conductivity

C. Low density

D. High chemical activity

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Production of a hollow product by inflation of a tube or parison is called the __________ process.

A. Blow moulding

B. Calendaring

C. Extrusion

D. Injection

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Use of economiser in a boiler plant reduces the fuel consumption for steam generation by about __________ percent.

A. 1

B. 10

C. 30

D. 50

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A cylindrical rod subjected to a tensile strain within the elastic limit undergoes a volume change. If the volume strain is equal to half the tensile strain, then the Poisson's ratio of the rod is

A. 0

B. 0.33

C. 0.44

D. 0.25

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Limestone addition in the blast furnace is done to flux __________ present in the raw materials.

A. SiO2

B. Al2O3

C. MnO2

D. P

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Dowtherm is a

A. High temperature heating medium (a petroleum product)

B. Product of coal tar distillation

C. Very heat sensitive material

D. None of these

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Increasing the carbon content of steel

A. Reduces the upper shelf energy

B. Increasing the ductility transition temperature

C. Decreases brittleness

D. Decreases hardness