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NEET UG 2022 · Chemistry · Question 59

NEET 2022 Chemistry, question 59

Question 59 of the NEET 2022 paper (code R1) is a Chemistry question from Surface Chemistry. Its idea, Coagulation and the Hardy-Schulze Rule, was asked twice, in 2018 and 2022, across NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q59 · Chemistry

Given below are two statements :

Statement I :

In the coagulation of a negative sol, the flocculating power of the three given ions is in the order

Al3+>Ba2+>Na+\mathrm{Al^{3+} > Ba^{2+} > Na^{+}}

Statement II :

In the coagulation of a positive sol, the flocculating power of the three given salts is in the order

NaCl>Na2SO4>Na3PO4\mathrm{NaCl > Na_2SO_4 > Na_3PO_4}

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

  1. 1Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
  2. 2Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
  3. 3Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
  4. 4Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrectOfficial answer

Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

Coagulation and the Hardy-Schulze Rule, in other papers

NEET asked this idea twice, in 2018 and 2022. The other question below.

  • 2018 Q75On which of the following properties does the coagulating power of an ion depend ?One-line MCQ · Easy

Coagulation and the Hardy-Schulze Rule: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Surface Chemistry in ten years of NEET

8 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 7 of 10 papers, about 0.8 a paper. Surface Chemistry and Colloids alone had 8.

Surface Chemistry: questions per paper

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