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NEET UG 2023 · Chemistry · Question 56

NEET 2023 Chemistry, question 56

Question 56 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Chemistry question from Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry. Its idea, Percentage Purity of a Sample, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 3.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q56 · Chemistry

The right option for the mass of CO2_2 produced by heating 20 g of 20% pure limestone is (Atomic mass of Ca = 40)

[CaCO3→1200 KCaO+CO2]\left[\mathrm{CaCO_3 \xrightarrow{1200\,K} CaO + CO_2}\right]

  1. 11.32 g
  2. 21.12 g
  3. 31.76 gOfficial answer
  4. 42.64 g

Official answer: option 3 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Percentage Purity of a Sample

No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.

Percentage Purity of a Sample: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry in ten years of NEET

14 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 9 of 10 papers, about 1.3 a paper. Mole Concept alone had 14.

Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry: questions per paper

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