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• What makes flowers smell sweet? Are there any particular chemicals that are released into the surrounding air? If so, which part of the flower is responsible?
  
• Is it true that capacitors "store" charges? If so, how come the total amount of charge being supplied to a (capacitor containing) circuit, remains the same?
  
• Are aerosols colloids or are they gaseous solutions?
  
• How come higher the value of Henry's Law constant, the lower is the solubility of a gas in a liquid?
  
• Why is the dipole moment of the C-Cl bond in chlorobenzene lower than that of cyclohexyl chloride?
  
• Why do we assume that the image distance is equal to the far point/near point of a myopic/hypermetropic eye respectively, while trying to find the focal length of the corrective lens? Aren't the far point and near point object distances?
  
• How is scattering of light related to the wavelength of light and the size of a particle which scatters it, both qualitatively and quantitatively?
  
• How do we prove that alcohols are weaker acids than water?
  
• Do ethers and esters form hydrogen bonds with water and with themselves?
  
• How do you convert Benzaldehyde to Benzophenone in exactly two steps?
  
• What are tarry oxidation products?
  
• Why don't secondary and tertiary amines react with nitrous acid to liberate nitrogen gas?
  
• What is produced when #CH_3CONH_2# reacts with NaOBr? Is NaOBr a product of (or equivalent to) #Br_2 + NaOH# which are used in the Hoffmann bromamide degradation reaction?
  
• How are dextrorotatory compounds, laevorotatory compounds, D form and L form different from each other?
  
• Why do #Cu^+# , #Fe^(3+)# and #Mn^(2+)# have colored solutions despite having half filled and full filled d orbitals?
  
• Why does a line have infinitely many sets of direction ratios?
  
• Which primitive form of *Homo sapiens* is considered to be more intelligent (than us) - Cro Magnon or Neanderthal man?