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Answer:
Cleaning up oil spills and metal contaminates in a low-impact, sustainable and inexpensive manner remains a challenge for companies and governments globally.
But a group of researchers at UW–Madison is examining alternative materials that can be modified to absorb oil and chemicals. If further developed, the technology may offer a cheaper and “greener” method to absorb oil and heavy metals from water and other surfaces.
Aerogels, which are highly porous materials and the lightest solids in existence, are already used in a variety of applications, ranging from insulation and aerospace materials to thickening agents in paints. The aerogel prepared in Gong’s lab is made of cellulose nanofibrils (sustainable wood-based materials) and an environmentally friendly polymer. Furthermore, these cellulose-based aerogels are made using an environmentally friendly freeze-drying process without the use of organic solvents.
It’s the combination of this “greener"material and its high performance that got Gong’s attention.
“For this material, one unique property is that it has superior absorbing ability for organic solvents — up to nearly 100 times its own weight,” she says. “It also has strong absorbing ability for metal ions.”
Treating the cellulose-based aerogel with specific types of silane after it is made through the freeze-drying process is a key step that gives the aerogel its water-repelling and oil-absorbing properties.
Ni solution could be used to remove lead from lead (II) nitrate.
Explanation:
The removal of lead from lead nitrate will take place by displacement reaction.
In displacement reaction less reactive element is displaced by more reactive element form it compound.
The reactivity is decided by the placement of metal in the activity series.
A metal which is at higher position in the activity series will be able to displace the metal or element having lower position.
From the options given we will check their position in the activity series in comparison to Pb
Cu is lower in series than Pb hence cannot displace.
Hg is placed lower in the series than Pb hence cannot displace Pb.
Ag is placed lower than Pb in the series hence cannot displace Pb.
Ni is placed above the Pb in activity series hence can displace lead.
We have to explain monochlorination.
Monochlorination is the process to introduce one chlorine atom in any organic compound.
Generally, monochlorination takes place by replacement of proton from organic compound. To do chlorination, Cl₂ or HCl is used as reagent.
Inntroduction of one Cl-atom in any organic molecule takes place through free radical mechanism.
The monochlorination of benzene is shown here:
Then it would become: S2-
Its charge will be -2.
