CAT Questions

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Stoichiometry is a branch of chemistry deals with the calculations on reactants and products. It is based on the Law of conservation of mass where total mass of reactants is equal to total mass of products.

The India's commerce and industry ministry has started the exercise to revise base year to 2017-18 for computation of wholesale inflation with a view to present more realistic picture of the price situation

In May last year, the government revised the base year for WPI-based inflation to 2011-12 to give a better indication of changes in prices of commodities.

The new index, with 2017-18, is expected to have new items, which would provide a more realistic picture of price rise and its impact on people.

Most of the additions could be in the manufactured products category. Currently, the index has a total of 697 items, including primary articles, fuel and power and manufactured products.

The purines are bases in the DNA. The two purines in DNA are Adenine and Guanine. These two purines forms hydrogen bonds with their complimentary pyrimidines such as Thymine and Cytosine to keep the two rails of the DNA molecule together.

Coagulation is a chemical process that involves neutralization of charge. Coagulation during water treatment is designed to remove particles suspended in water.

Asset means anything that can be converted into cash. Here in banks, the loans disbursed by Bank to its customers is considered as assets because when they are cleared by them, then they are directly converted to cash.

Dysfunctional behaviors are maladaptive which means that they interfere with everyday life.

Nuakhai or Nuankhai is an agricultural festival mainly observed by people of Odisha and Chhattisgarh in India. Nuakhai is observed to welcome the new rice of the season.