Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

I) Bleaching powder is a pale yellow powder

II) Dry NH3 gas turns red litmus blue

III) The pH of rain water is nearly 7

IV) The pH of acid rain is nearly 5.6

The energy stored in a dry cell is in the form of

What is the action of dry HCl gas on dry litmus paper?

What is called the hot dry local winds blowing in the northern part of Alps mountain?

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

dry run

Sumit wants to get his clothes washed. The laundry service charges in his city are such that for the first kg of clothes, he is charged Rs.150 and after that, he is charged Rs.50 for every kg that follows. If he gets 10kg of clothes washed, how much money does he pay for the laundry service ?

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

The pool was dry as the water (had been drained off) the day before.

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

In short, to write a good letter you must approach the job in the lightest and most casual way. You must be personal, not abstract. You must not say, 'This is too small a thing to put down'. You must say, 'This is just the sort of small thing we talk about at home. If I tell them this they will see me, as it were they'll hear my voice, they'll know what I'm talking about'. That is the purpose of a letter. Carlyle had the trick to perfection. He is writing from Scotsbrig to his brother Alec in Canada and he begins talking about his mother. Good old Mother, he says, 'she is even now sitting at my back, trying at another table to write you a small word with her own hand; the first time she has tried such a thing for a year past. It is Saturday night, after dark; we are in the east room in a hard, dry evening with a bright fire to our two selves; Jenny and her Barns are 'scouring up things' in the other end of the house; and below stairs the winter operations of the farm go on, in a subdued tone; you can conceive the scene! How simple it is and yet how perfect. Can not you see Alec reading it in his far-off home and his eyes moistening at the picture of his old mother sitting and writing her last message to him on earth?

Subdued tone means _______.