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Heat and Thermodynamics
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Which of the following produces more severe burns?

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Cloudy nights are warmer compared to clear cloudless nights, because clouds

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On adding common salt to water, the boiling point and freezing point of water will

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Which one of the following instruments is used for measuring moisture content of air?

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Which of the following processes will have the slowest speed for the same volume of a liquid?

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Match the following.
List-I List-II
a. Evaporation 1. Liquid into gas
b. Sublimation 2. Liquid into solid
c. Freezing 3. Solid into gas
d. Melting 4. Solid into liquid

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Assertion (A): A piece of copper and a piece of glass are heated to the same temperature. When touched, thereafter the copper piece appears hotter than the glass piece.
Reason (R): The desity of copper is more than that of glass.

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A gap is left between two rails of a railway track to accommodate . . . . . . . . of the metal.

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Thermostat . . . . . . . . is a mean of Keeping Stable.

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. . . . . . . . are comparatively bad conductors of heat

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The atmosphere is heated mainly by

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Which of the following is correct?
Specific volume of water when heated at 0 Celsius

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The water from a hand pump is warm in winter because

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A hydrogen inflated polythene balloon is released from the surface of the Earth. As the balloon rises to an altitude up in the atmosphere, it will

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Super cooling stands for cooling of a liquid

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Consider the following statements.
Assertion (A): Light coloured clothes are preferred in summer.
Reason(R): Light colours are poor absorbers of heat.
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Burns caused by steam are much severe than those caused by boiling water because

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Which of the following represents a relation for heat lost = heat gained?

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If thermal capacity of a body is expressed in terms of mass of water is called

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Green house effect is the heating up of the Earth's atmosphere which is due to

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